First, I want to thank everyone who took the time to reply to my 13th hour post. It was a statement of what I wanted to do with some extra time in my life but it was also a search for what I needed. I know it didn't come across that way, a little trickery on my part. The end result was, I got my answer and someone won a free $200 zClassic from me for the help.
I started writing the 13th Hour originally just to put my thoughts down. As I was writing it, I sat reflecting what my thought was. What was my 13th hour and why was I thinking I needed more time. That is when it dawned on me that it was me that was allowing my time to be consumed. I run around like a chicken with my head cut off after having 10 kids but I have never been a person that wasted time. That was my problem I realized as I continued writing.
What has consumed me so deeply that I was allowing life to slip by? Was it the endless hours on steemit.chat talking to folks I have never met? Was it searching steemit.com for hidden gems. Was it searching Youtube for any sort of quality video's to watch? Was it watching endless TV? Was it chasing the markets for another dollar? These all quickly came to mind, so, I knew that none of these were the cause of my issue. I have always done these things with the exception of adding in steemit in place of private forums and steemit.chat for previously used message boards. That's when it hit me.
I was missing my daily detox. That is how, I have been able to juggle everything I do, for 21 hours a day and have been doing so for over 30 years. I have been neglecting my daily meditation. Not the type of meditation (daydreaming) that the internet has made popular where one reflects on the day or thinks on things they are feeling. True meditation. Thoughtless, rhythm breathing while being motionless while slowing down the heart. This has always been a thing I have done since before my teenage years. I have lost that somewhere in the last few years and it has effected my daily mojo extremely. Mainly the problem has been that I really have had too much other real life to deal with that my own personal well being had been pushed to the back burner of life. The case in hand was a death, which is also one of the best uses for meditation.
My daily fix of random was also missing. I just took my 15 minutes of brainlessness right here right now in the middle of writing this to to find the example above of needed randomness..........
That is the concoction for 3 hours of sleep or less a day. That is what works for me.
I also hoped that my post could jar some responses that would lead me to some new users to follow. I was blessed with three new users that I had not had the pleasure of really checking out their blogs in full. I had to pick one winner from these three and had to use their responses only to pick and it was one response that made my light bulb click.
The three new users I now follow are:
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And the winner is: