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I love when my dining table is full of people. I love when I have a group of new friends sitting around and enjoying an amazing meal that we prepared together. This is when I love my kitchen, my dining table and my job the most.
And then sometimes this is me…
Sitting at that very same table with a highlighter in one hand, a pen in the other and a table full of receipts, invoices, property tax stuff, balance sheets, expense forms, paypal admin and all the other stuff that comes with running my business. Now don’t think that I am the one who actually goes and enters any of that into any kind of spread sheet. I don’t do spread sheets.
But see, we can’t be great at everything and we also aren’t always going to love what we have to do. This is when we (wo)man up and use it as an exercise. I use many things, everyday, as exercises. Sitting in traffic is an exercise in patience, watching people choose to eat crap is an exercise in non-judgment, receiving rude emails is an exercise in not taking anything personally.
Any challenge that comes our way has come our way to teach us something. It might suck monkey balls at the time, but if we can see the exercise in it, come through it having learned something than doesn’t that make us better for having had it?
Last week, a friend had her car towed. She was pissed and when I told her to use it as an exercise, I am pretty sure she wanted to kick me in the taco. When I was first told to use something as an exercise, I suddenly found that the most immediate exercise was to refrain from tearing that person in two. But see- that’s all it is. An exercise, a practice… whatever you like to call it. It is about sitting through the uncomfortable, breathing through a challenge, learning how to respond rather than react and feel all the better for it.
If there is ever a day that I don’t feel like I learned anything, or didn’t do anything that scared me just a little so that I could exercise my calm, well that just wasn’t a day that I lived to it’s fullest.
That was the thinking that landed me in this knock-kneed situation-
I hadn’t skied in 20 years! And I am guessing it may be another 20 before my thighs recover. But it totally scared me so job well done me!
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, learning how to just be, without reacting in any great dramatic way is the greatest exercise of all. It is ongoing and can benefit us beyond any other healthy living practice. When we change our mind about how we look on something, smooth sailing is our state.
So even when we have to do stuff we don’t want to do, or be somewhere we don’t want to be, or experience something we’d rather trade in for another experience, we just use it as an exercise and all is well and dandy and easy to get through.
For me, my book-keeping admin tasks is an exercise in not putting that pen through my right eye and calling it quits.
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You have a way with words.hehe…That is a great idea.I need to try the exercise approach.I think it would bring more accomplishment and meaning to tense situations:-)cc
Thank you. I really needed to read something like that today. And thank you for stopping by my blog
Love how you have two stoves in your kitchen! Do you have two dishwashers as well?
No on the two dishwashers
The two stoves are for the cooking classes and when I am in granola production for shows.
My on-going exercise is (sadly) working with patients and clients who don’t actually care to learn about exercise or nutrition, they are in motor vehicle accidents and most never get much better. It’s very fatiguing to pour your heart and soul into somebody else’s health when they aren’t at all invested in any sort of a lifestyle change! They are only there because their insurance company tells them to go
This will be my exercise for one more week (the hardest week!) because I have resigned and am opening up my own business instead – for people who actually WANT to change their lives!
That’s awesome!
Meaghan, you say the best things at the just the right time that I need to hear them. I’m beginning to think I won’t need therapy!
) I’m working through a pretty difficult situation at a new job right now and I’m going to take the weekend, to journal, meditate and look at the situation again as an exercise.
Thanks so much for this post.
I love the phrase, “I am pretty sure she wanted to kick me in the taco.” I’m going to use THAT amusing statement to get me through uncomfortable moments.
Also, I think I recognize the blurry male in the second photo but I’m nowhere near sure.
I just started a great job where I make amazing raw desserts here in Austin, Texas, but learning a ton of things at once has me feeling very flustered at times. I would like to make my practice as meeting obstacles and stress with equanimity, as I usually tend to get very nervous and feel inadequate as if I’m letting the person I work for down by (god forbid) messing up once or twice.
Thanks for this post, I feel better now
Glad to hear!
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(And do you ship to Toronto?
Where’s this raw place at? I live in Dallas and would love to know where to go next time I’m in Austin.