Focusing your intention and purpose
There is an experience I have had that most of us seem to have at some stage. I am at home, downstairs and I think to myself, “I left my watch etc. upstairs in the bedroom, I must go up and get it.” I am halfway up the stairs and someone calls to me, “are you going upstairs could you bring me down my ipod,” (cardigan, keys, wallet or a multitude of other things). I go on upstairs and I get the Ipod, or whatever for the person who asked for it. I then either go back down stairs having forgotten my watch or I pause up there and wonder what I came up for in the first place. If I had consciously kept both things (valuing both) at the front of my mind I could easily have remembered the two but instead one stepped in and replaced the other. This reminds me of the relationship we often have with our deeper values or sense of purpose; we do not keep them at the forefront of our minds and they get shunted for other things. I am not saying those other things are more or less important ...