Hi There, Dan. It’s Dan. I am watching and learning about you. Love your intention and effort. Good idea to use your time away from work as a retreat. (Note to self: you can bring this intention to your life even if things change again.)

I’m writing because I noticed that you have an intention to use time away from your physical work space, school, to use more as a retreat, but ran into a speed bump yesterday.

Here’s what I noticed about your day. Your idea of bringing a retreat like atmosphere to all you do got crowded out by your concern for your job.

You spent some good time in the morning yesterday meditating in a way that grows your meditative experience. “Good job,” as your teacher might say.

What happened later was that you continued to work, work, work, on your job–not a bad thing in itself, but by the time you got to the evening and ready for bed you hadn’t taken the time to meditate in the evening that you were planning to do.

It’s all learning. Keep with it…..