This
CHALLENGE
had made L assess everything that came up to be done, and to classify it - whether to do it now, or today, or leave it till further along in the future.
He had switched his to-do list system to "1MTD". That had been quite helpful, and he had done a large number of urgent things, rather than put them off and do less urgent things. As this issue had affected him systemically, the challenge made him approach everything differently, and doing it with a different hand did not come up for him.
Sometimes at the end of a long day, N could not be bothered doing something, and would add it to the following day's to-do list. If he had a complicated document to draft, he had found it a better strategy to spend only a little time on it during that afternoon, and to sleep on it, allowing the subconscious to pull itself together, so that coming to it fresh the following day it would flow with greater precision. He could not do things with the other hand, because all of his work was typing. He had found that there were certain things that he was avoiding doing, which kept on appearing on his to-do list and then not getting done, and therefore the Challenge was constructive from that perspective.
Doing things now instead of tomorrow had not been uppermost for T. She had done it a few times, but it was for deadlines, rushing things late at night - just a token exercise really. She had been in an anxious state to try and do the challenge, but because of that she had not been thinking holistically and therefore doing things with the wrong hand had got missed at those times, although she had tried writing and drawing with the left hand during the month. So it was a fragmentation experience.
Responses to these contributions were made, but did not pertain to doing the challenge. They included a lengthy discussion about sleep, musicians and athletes, including thoughts on a recent boxing match. The reading continued from Chapter 26 of Beelzebub's Tales.
... He then, after His year of special observation and studies of their psyche, again ascended to that same mountain Veziniama, and during several terrestrial months contemplatively pondered in which way He could actualize His decision, that is, to save the beings of this planet from those hereditary predispositions to the crystallizations of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, by means of those data which survived in their subconsciousness for the fundamental sacred being-impulse, Conscience.
GC asked what this meant. J said it meant there was a residue of unconscious drivers that was distinct from your individual volition, your individual wish, and you could survive if you allowed the better conscience elements within that to be the driver of your thinking. T said that the driving force was unique for each person. GC asked if choosing those elements was a guessing game. L said that the text indicated that conscience is the key.
| At least once a day, when you feel the temptation to put off doing something till the next day, do it right away instead, and with the wrong hand. |
Sometimes at the end of a long day, N could not be bothered doing something, and would add it to the following day's to-do list. If he had a complicated document to draft, he had found it a better strategy to spend only a little time on it during that afternoon, and to sleep on it, allowing the subconscious to pull itself together, so that coming to it fresh the following day it would flow with greater precision. He could not do things with the other hand, because all of his work was typing. He had found that there were certain things that he was avoiding doing, which kept on appearing on his to-do list and then not getting done, and therefore the Challenge was constructive from that perspective.
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| Humpty Dumpty before a Fragmentation Experience Art by John Tenniel 1872 |
Responses to these contributions were made, but did not pertain to doing the challenge. They included a lengthy discussion about sleep, musicians and athletes, including thoughts on a recent boxing match. The reading continued from Chapter 26 of Beelzebub's Tales.
... He then, after His year of special observation and studies of their psyche, again ascended to that same mountain Veziniama, and during several terrestrial months contemplatively pondered in which way He could actualize His decision, that is, to save the beings of this planet from those hereditary predispositions to the crystallizations of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, by means of those data which survived in their subconsciousness for the fundamental sacred being-impulse, Conscience.
GC asked what this meant. J said it meant there was a residue of unconscious drivers that was distinct from your individual volition, your individual wish, and you could survive if you allowed the better conscience elements within that to be the driver of your thinking. T said that the driving force was unique for each person. GC asked if choosing those elements was a guessing game. L said that the text indicated that conscience is the key.
