For St. Patrick’s Day, I had my toenails lacquered kelly green.

It’s not my color. I don’t like it on my toes. I would not wear that color sweater, so why did I put it on my toes?

You say, “Relax, Mary. It’s only your toes.”  I know! But hey, I look at them a lot, and the feedback is, “Yuck!”

There are a lot of little distractions like that, some of which we aren’t even aware of. Yet they niggle at us like little paper cuts. Our thoughts are chief among these energy thieves, as are loud clocks and noises your cubicle mate (or semi-retired husband) makes, like pencil tapping or mouth noises (not naming any names).

We are often unaware of the source; we can take just so much and then unleash it in all the wrong directions.

The best solution I have found is to become aware of your environment and where these things come from so you can remove them or strategize how to work with or around them. Personally, I’m getting my toenails redone ASAP. Not everything else is that readily addressed, but it’s a start. 

Then there are your thoughts. Background meditation music can be very soothing. So can addressing these thoughts head-on and moving to a more peaceful state of mind.

If you’d like to know more about how to do this, set up a time for us to talk whenever you are ready to live a more peaceful, less distracted daily life.

Mary