People are trying to distract you all the time, yes, all the time.
The other day, there was a power cut in part of my building (lots of different circuitry) and my next door neighbour, unaffected, came to my door in a panic. She talked and talked and talked without coming up for breath and eventually I had to keep slowly closing the door until I could escape.
This flat is a refuge, after the interaction, my heart raced and raced. It felt violating quite honestly. Peace is increasingly important to me these days, only way to get things done properly when you have your own space and your own boundaries.
News (look at the word – a collection of ‘new’ stuff) – unexamined, biased, meant to manipulate.
I watch no mainstream news, read no newspapers, watch no current TV. Admittedly, we’ll see stuff on Twitter and places – I have no TV licence.
Watch what you consume, I recently posted the 5 focuses for 2024 and one of them was to be a producer not a consumer. Start to curate your life, streamline and follow only productive/uplifting content.
What are you really going to do about the war in Ukraine? Really! Do you want to be part of this geo-political bullshit and end up having done nothing for yourself?
No, you don’t do you. And understand, I get that it’s hard to disconnect from that and focus on what it is you want to do.
That is the lesson for this year – make your behaviour new and nothing else.