Today I tried to apply a new strategy for myself. I made a little experiment to see how I would feel about everything. Taking the "live in the present" Jedi adage to heart and learning from the article I posted a few days ago (telling my will to be a little less willful), I set out for today's SWP meeting. I had errands to do before the meeting so I had lunch, ate at my normal pace, went on to run the errands, and then proceeded to walk to SWP HQ. I know it was already past 2pm, but I did not run. I did not prepare an agenda, just reviewed the important issues that I know should be discussed. When I got to the meeting place at around 2:20pm.... no one was there. It seems everybody's late too. I sat down and after setting my initial irritation aside, I suddenly realized that my little experiment is working. It seems my Jedi friends turned into Wizards (arriving only precisely when they mean to). Now if I exerted effort to try to control the situation like I normally do, I would have been at the meeting place 20 minutes before 2pm, then I would have been more irritated that people are late. With my new approach, I saved myself some stress and irritation, as well as the waiting. Good enough for my first try. Now to try to apply to other situations....

.:chronicled by senator skywalker at 7:43:00 AM:.
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