I just wanted to share a thought with you guys about mindfulness and trade week. This is a completely optional suggestion of course.
The enemy of the present is unproductive distractions about the past or future.
In my opinion, trade week media is the epitome of unproductive distractions.
For many, there’s an enjoyment in the speculation, rumours, and predictions associated with trade media, and some people have jobs where they’re not losing anything by engaging with it. But some of us are wasting our time in a state of mind that is not contributing to our happiness at all. That’s me!
So I try to pretend the AFL trade period doesn’t exist for 2 weeks and check the final trade results at the end. I tell myself I’ve saved myself from countless pointless hours of “what if this? what if that?”
It’s the media’s job to engage your mind in distraction for as many hours as possible. Their success is to your detriment, in terms of mindfulness. The extent of that detriment depends on each individual.
So I’m just putting it out there for anyone who struggles with mindfulness at times and may be finding themselves checking trade news more than they’d like. Every minute we spend lost in unproductive thought is a minute lost to ourselves and those around us, and some might agree that trade media, for them, is among the most meaningless of all distractions.
The enemy of the present is unproductive distractions about the past or future.
In my opinion, trade week media is the epitome of unproductive distractions.
For many, there’s an enjoyment in the speculation, rumours, and predictions associated with trade media, and some people have jobs where they’re not losing anything by engaging with it. But some of us are wasting our time in a state of mind that is not contributing to our happiness at all. That’s me!
So I try to pretend the AFL trade period doesn’t exist for 2 weeks and check the final trade results at the end. I tell myself I’ve saved myself from countless pointless hours of “what if this? what if that?”
It’s the media’s job to engage your mind in distraction for as many hours as possible. Their success is to your detriment, in terms of mindfulness. The extent of that detriment depends on each individual.
So I’m just putting it out there for anyone who struggles with mindfulness at times and may be finding themselves checking trade news more than they’d like. Every minute we spend lost in unproductive thought is a minute lost to ourselves and those around us, and some might agree that trade media, for them, is among the most meaningless of all distractions.
