Mindfulist #4 – Workplace awareness
7 Jan
Identify three bells of awareness/mindfulness at work. For example you might, minimize Facebook when your boss walks by. Or swivel in your chair when the phone rings. What are your three?|
1. I’m a chair swiveler alright. It’s an action that I’m not fully cognizant of when the phone does ring, but upon examining my behaviours a bit more carefully today, I noted that this is something I display. I do take the swiveling a bit too seriously when it is a particularly fun chair and have found myself treating it as one would treat a ride at the amusement park but I think this is due to being of small stature and feeling like most chairs are an invitation to engage in some kind of tilt-a-whirlesque fun.
2. My low battery signal is a bell of awareness as it usually means that I need to move my gear from one location to that of one near an outlet. Sometimes this simple act can shift my attention from what I’m considering a priority as if I don’t have a lot of paper, pens, sketches, water, tea, snacks and so on, then chances are what I’ve put my attention to might not be all that much of a priority. Might be a strange way to evaluate worth on the old tasklist, but most of my major projects come with plenty of paper baggage by way of file folders, scraps and stapled henscratched documents.
3. My adorable little pug hopping from his blankie on the couch is another cue for me to take a break, enjoy some air and get some fresh thoughts in my head. Now that I’m working from home, he’s a welcome coworker who helps me to take time for myself and not get too caught up that I forget to breathe. He also reminds me to eat some raw carrots and to make sure to share a few of them with him. Much healthier than my previous vending machine shenanigans from the past.
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Love #3. I have a pug, too. His name is Quest and he just turned 15. He never lets me forget to take a snack or meal break. He’s too old to take walks anymore so we adopted a Boston Terrier from the local shelter this summer. She’s two and full of energy which helps me get away from my desk and enjoy the outdoors a few times a day.
Oohh. What a great name for a pug.
My Bob is 8 years old and I just adore him to bits. I often think of adopting a second but he’s got some serious attachment issues that have caused me from doing so. I think the energy of a Boston Terrier would cause him to move in with the neighbors!
Yeah – they are very different dogs. We’ve had Lola for about 5 months now and they seem to get along great. At 15, Quest doesn’t do much but eat and sleep so he doesn’t pay much attention to her. I wouldn’t trade either of them. ;)