Reflections 20th March
On my Mind
Processing Time
I've long used Evernote to capture and organise the many things that interest me. I love its simplicity and the ability to tag and search. However, that's also a challenge - taking the time and getting the focus on what to search for. Inevitably, the items that are "front of mind" are symptoms of what I need to address, not causes, and getting to a cause requires patience - and space.
When an uncomfortable mass of things is calling out for attention, I have found that the best thing to do is leave them alone for a while. Take a walk in the countryside I am fortunate to live in the middle of. Listen to some music - anything that doesn't have an objective attached to it. When I come back to the mass of things I walked away from, they've somehow rearranged themselves into something not just more manageable but which captures my attention differently, and that all-important search term comes to mind.
Worthwhile ideas seem to have a hard …
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