today helped me feel a great sense of community. I saw the contradictions in myself and in the other adult monastics where we each claim to be in the right as we all live here together. It's like any corporation job (with a sense of company culture too) except the dynamic is that we all live here. Gratefully we each have our own rooms. My room with my cat is my sanctuary. The sense of camaraderie of all of us here with 'tilted halos' had me feeling adult and yet oddly confident and relaxed. I noticed my passions and my pickiness at times but again I focused on the work and felt relaxed. I no longer eschewed obvious moments of where I could make the extra effort and take care of things that someone or anyone of us would have to do. I felt like an adult - a sense of acceptance and of being responsible and grounding.
perhaps the wisest piece of financial advice i have ever taken is, "keep fun on the budget." i took this piece of advice when i was a single parent and behind on most all of my bills. the bits of fun i put and kept on the budget were modest in the extreme, cheaper than legal drugs, but they were great stress relievers. when i have nothing on my budget but the grim essentials, i get crazier than usual. these days i class those little self-indulgences as part of self-care. do mind the budget, but not to the point of self-neglect. yet another question of balance.
carpe momentum
seize the moment
enjoy the self-indulgence
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today helped me feel a great sense of community. I saw the contradictions in myself and in the other adult monastics where we each claim to be in the right as we all live here together. It's like any corporation job (with a sense of company culture too) except the dynamic is that we all live here. Gratefully we each have our own rooms. My room with my cat is my sanctuary. The sense of camaraderie of all of us here with 'tilted halos' had me feeling adult and yet oddly confident and relaxed. I noticed my passions and my pickiness at times but again I focused on the work and felt relaxed. I no longer eschewed obvious moments of where I could make the extra effort and take care of things that someone or anyone of us would have to do. I felt like an adult - a sense of acceptance and of being responsible and grounding.
perhaps the wisest piece of financial advice i have ever taken is, "keep fun on the budget." i took this piece of advice when i was a single parent and behind on most all of my bills. the bits of fun i put and kept on the budget were modest in the extreme, cheaper than legal drugs, but they were great stress relievers. when i have nothing on my budget but the grim essentials, i get crazier than usual. these days i class those little self-indulgences as part of self-care. do mind the budget, but not to the point of self-neglect. yet another question of balance.
carpe momentum
seize the moment
enjoy the self-indulgence
Thanks Arfie!!