I’ve been thinking a lot lately about two powerful questions:
What are you doing right now?
What did you do today?
Answering these questions truthfully is tough for many of us, because our minds jump immediately to other questions, like “what should I be doing?” or “what didn’t I do today.”
That’s not the question.
The question is what are you doing, right now, in this moment. How did you spend your time today? Try asking with gentle curiosity and a willingness to really pay attention to the answer.
When we discount our day by saying things like “I didn’t get anything done” we usually mean that we didn’t make progress on a particular project, or we didn’t gain a feeling of accomplishment from what we did. But most people, most of the time, didn’t spend the entire day not-doing. It’s just that you were doing something else.
What if that something else served a purpose too? What might it be? How could you make more conscious space for that purpose in your life?