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How Thoughts Are Like Fleeting Notes
Finding your flow of how your mind works and how to start working with it.
…Or is it that fleeting notes help capture how the mind works?
In my 12 years of daily practice of Morning Pages, I’ve noticed one very obvious theme…
That my thoughts are all over the place. I’m lucky to get half a page focused on one thought. They usually come in short sentences. Sometimes two. Sometimes as tasks, and sometimes as profound guidance.
A typical example looks like this:
“The cat really is being cuddly. I wish she would get settled in already. I forgot to do the dishes last night. Need to do that today. Do I have time today? What do my calls look like? I really wish my husband would wake up. Oh he’ll probably cook nasty smelling bacon again. Maybe I don’t want him to wake up quite yet. Let’s enjoy the coffee first. I should work on my Genius Zone report today. Do I have time? What should I focus on today? I really want to get some stuff done. Dishes. Do the dishes.”
This example doesn’t have anything substantial to it. It’s just me noticing what my mind is yammering on about. Bit by bit. Piece by piece.
Yet, the thoughts being all over the place is the consistent part. It’s in noticing this…
