Everywhere I look my daily life offers opportunities to become more mindful, present, aware, and responsive. Everyday “mundane” tasks unfold in front of me, and I see the opportunity to serve them vs. how reactive and ultimately unmindful I have approached these interactions with life.
One of those daily interactions, my attention was drawn to recently is email.
A couple of weeks ago, I realized just how reactive and quick I am to write or respond to emails while never considering in great detail, the other person at the end of my email. Emailing has been driven more by a desire to knock something off my list and get the answers to the questions I had so I could move on. As Eckhart Tolle would say, my action of writing emails so often have been “a means to an end,” I am writing A so I can get to point B.
