It’s Not the Calm before the Storm
I’ve been working on my next book, The AI Anomaly, and developing the story outline has been really stretching my ideas about humanity’s potential for evolution and what’s next.
My exploratory morning pages have churned out things that I didn’t even know were nesting in my inner workings.
This is a good place to be. I feel like I am on the right track with my habits and goals and I’m excited about how the story is growing.
“The Calm Before the Storm”
I had a fleeting thought this morning that I have felt this way before and then chaos ensued and I got knocked down or distracted or something got in the way of my progress. I thought, “Maybe this is the calm before the storm.”
I have thought that many times before.
I have had an expectation in the past of something negative balancing out my good. This train of thought presents a life where I am at the mercy of things happening to me and around me to determine how I feel about life at the moment.
Calm as a Choice
Even though that programming continues to pop up and test me, I know better. I have had enough experience to understand that I am in control of how I feel in any situation even if I am not in control of the situation.
This self-control is the calm. I enjoy this quiet place within myself. Focus and productivity grow out of it.
I’m not always perfect at maintaining my calm, but I have been working on daily habits to help me stay present to it.
It is a work in progress that I am happy to continue.
I am embracing the calm as my normal and there is no storm unless I allow it.