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Originally Posted by awu  I particularly like how Steve mentions the kinds of distractions that steer us away from our purpose - health, financial and relationship problems that keep us running around in little circles. |
When I was reading that part I suddenly felt self-conscious, because I was scratching my foot like crazy. I do get too easily distracted by mundane things that "drive me nuts", translation: "give me yet another excuse to drive
myself nuts" -- like when a car pulls up near my home with the gangsta rap blasting, and I think I can't tune it out and have to clench my teeth until they leave -- or when I don't like what someone says, and I spend the next four hours playing out responses in my head to come up with the one phrase that would have made them break down and cry on the spot -- or when I give my full attention to a myriad of tiny physical irritations that I would be oblivious to if I was actually
doing something. Those are the kinds of things that I have to let flow behind me in my wake.