Have you ever been driving down the road and all of a sudden you realize you’re way farther down the road than you expected? Perhaps you’ve been “working” in your office when you notice an hour has gone by and your cursor is still in the same spot on your monitor as the last time you looked. Or here’s an embarrassing one. You’re talking with someone when you realize they’re looking at you, waiting for your to respond. Problem is you have no idea what they just said. The bottom line in all three cases is that your mind wandered. It happens to most people, so nothing to feel bad about. We all lose focus from time to time. The funny part is that we often don’t even recall our train of thought when we have these lapses in awareness. So here’s a fun little suggestion for figuring out what you spend your time thinking about when your mind wanders and you don’t know where it’s been.
Either on your phone or watch set a timer for a random amount of time. By random I mean avoid times like 15 minutes or 2 hours. Times when you’ll see the alarm coming, like on the hour or half hour. You want the alarm to be a surprise, out of the blue. It’s even better if you can find an app that will alert you at random times during the day.
Every time the alarm goes off, jot down what you were thinking right then. Don’t analyze or critique it, just write it down. If the alarm goes off and you were wondering if Darth Maul could take Darth Vader in a fight, write that down. If you were wondering where all those extra socks you lose in the dryer go, write that down. Do this over the course of a few days. After a few days logging go back and review what you’ve written down.
Now go an extra step. Would you classify the majority of thoughts as happy, sad, or random? While random thoughts, like is it better to put the toilet paper on the roller overhanded or underhanded in orientation, don’t hurt you, they don’t really help you either. If your thoughts are predominantly sad or angry, why? Is life really that bad? Maybe you should police your thoughts better. Focus more on happy thoughts.
Were the majority of the thoughts positive, happy, or uplifting? Then good for you. If you’re writing these down at random and it’s coming up mostly happy that means your mind spends a lot of time in your happy place. Be proud of that.
Either way you get a good glimpse into what’s going on upstairs when you don’t even realize it. Do this exercise from time to time to get a gauge of where you are. Because whether you know your thoughts or not, what you keep your mind on you attract into your life. Best to keep it positive then. Have a happy day. A happy week. And hopefully a happy life. Peace.
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Great post 😁