I’m in London today, and had an important meeting scheduled for the morning, followed by a lunch with a client / friend.
Yesterday the meeting was postponed. Then the dilemma hit me:
“I can’t possibly justify going into London just for an enjoyable lunch”.
I started thinking about arranging another meeting or 2 to “justify” the trip, or potentially cancelling the lunch and rescheduling.
This head chatter is very common for me – the need to be productive, to provide, to be efficient with my time.
And then this morning it struck me. “Justify”? Justify to who?
Today is a lovely day – the sun is shining, I love walking and I love walking across London.
So now I have decided to walk to the station, walk from Paddington to Euston for lunch, and back. I may listen to something en-route, or I may not.
I will love every minute of that, it will also allow some valuable thinking time, and in any case my mind and body will thank me. And I will enjoy the lunch even more.
I emailed my client / friend saying I may be dressed rather more casually today so that I can walk rather than tube across London. His response was “no problem, me too”.
The point of this is 5 years ago I would NEVER have allowed myself to do this. Why? Because of my embedded head chatter.
Now, I hear it and choose whether it’s helpful or not, and if it’s not I put it straight.
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Anyway, got to dash, I'm off to get my hiking shoes on! 😊
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