A Sunday as it happened to be ...

The day began as a gray, cold morning ... kind of foreboding to the winter that is approaching fast. As I sat in my bed, doing my daily ritual of mudras or finger poses, my mind created a snapshot of what I would be doing today. Of course this does not mean that I able to spend every day in my life the way I want it. Sometimes it gets close and sometimes I am thrown off completely. And I like it that way. There is always a thrill in unknown. Now these mudras are very interesting, they help me in centering. We all know that maintaining center of gravity helps us retain balance of our bodies. In the same way centering of mind helps us retaining balance of our minds and saves us from getting totally thrown off mentally or at least that has been my experience so far. So as I sat doing mudras, I laid out a plan for today. Which was - continuing my reading of 'Zen and the art of making living' by Laurence G. Boldt, calling my parents who live half a world apart, picking up leaves fallen from trees as winter is approaching fast, doing laundry for the house and spending some time with my older son, particularly watching old star trek episodes which he lot. As it turned out, I was able to accomplish each of those planned tasks. It was one of those rare days at the end of which I could happily say ... a day spent well. Now this was the story in the foreground.

I am done with all the house chores, it's 11:45 pm now I have time for myself. Except for the few pages I read from 'Zen and the art of making living', I haven't had much chance to concentrate on my career plans today. This is happening a lot in my life these days. Although I am very disciplined, I am unable to schedule any activities to enhance my career. I am into software programming and it is one of the fields that requires you to keep upgrading all the time. At one point of time in my life, I was very passionate about programming but past 10 years of programming for financial industry, I have been steadily loosing my interest in programming. Until my this new latest job in vehicle diagnostics ... I am feeling that my passion is returning. So I am hoping that I would do at least something tomorrow that would help my career. I will sleep over that thought and hopefully I will have some plan tomorrow morning ... Good Night!