That Saturday Feeling!

I love my Saturdays! I love any day really, but more so the days that I don’t actually have to go in to work. Saturdays and Sundays are currently the best days ever! I can do exactly as I please, don’t have to get up by a certain time, and DO NOT have to wear a tie – unless I want to, that is… and that is highly unlikely.

We have another gloriously sunny morning here today, and the sunshine just adds to that great feel good feeling!  More than loving my days off work, I love feeling good. So, yes, it must be said, that if I am feeling good in work, then I am enjoying that day too. Even wearing a tie. And that really sums up the feel good feeling – it doesn’t matter what you are doing, if you are feeling good whilst doing it, you will enjoy it! The particular aspects that you don’t like (being in work, wearing the tie etc) just disappear – even though, of course, you are still actually doing them too!

I find it all comes down to what I am thinking at the time. If I’m sitting at my desk thinking that I want to be somewhere else, I’m not in balance with what I’m doing at that time. My mind obviously is not on what I’m currently doing, and I can literally feel the separation between what I am feeling and doing. Therefore, I’m not enjoying myself as much as I could in my present moment. And it’s then that I find boredom, impatience, frustration and resentment start to set in. Feelings I do not like.

Look at boredom for example. How on earth can I feel bored? I love doing nothing, and try as often as I can to do actually that. Yet, here I am in work wanting to be somewhere else, and I’m feeling bored. I’m only bored because of this imbalance between what I am feeling and doing. I can’t go somewhere else (Well, I could, but that would probably cost me my job and I don’t want that) so I only have one option – to stay where I am. I should start to lose all thoughts of being somewhere else for now. Next, I’m not focussed on what I’m doing. I need to approach this in a different way. Put my mind to something that will help me to do my job better and enjoy it more. Now, I can’t think about being somewhere else as doing this job better is my priority. Very soon, the feelings of boredom evaporate, and I’m back to feeling good.

The other feelings I mentioned earlier arrive at various stages of being out of balance with what we are feeling and doing, but with a little conscious effort, we don’t need to ever feel that way again. Unless we want to. Sometimes the odd negative feeling is good to have – if only to remind us of how good we generally feel!

My work is very repetitive, so one way I try to improve it is to try to think of ways to make what I do even easier for the next time I do it. If one method works well, I’ll make a note of it for later. If another method doesn’t work well, I forget about it. And I am constantly doing this, so, in effect, I’m constantly trying to improve what I do. Sounds simple. And it is.

I still feel, from time to time, that I want to be somewhere else, and the negative feelings come flooding in. I’m not perfect. But I find this method really helps me when I feel that way.

I’ve just realised that I’ve posted about being in work on my day off. I try not to think about work when I’m not there, mainly for the reason I mentioned earlier – the only difference here though, is if I wanted to be somewhere else, I could just go! Once I start typing, I just can’t stop – I go with the flow!

Even posting about the negative feelings I get in work hasn’t altered the good feelings I currently have, so again, it is how I feel now that is providing the over riding feeling. And now is a Saturday. My day off.

What should I do now?