Let me set the stage!!!! I am getting ready for a day of filming my podcast and am preparing for what I want to talk about. I realize that I need to clean my room up and make up my bed so I can have my pretty backdrop. So that I can be efficient with my life which is quite important in my little head, I decided to download Bob Goff’s book on audible, Undistracted!!! See where I am going with this????
So while I am making my bed and picking up my room a little I start listening to Bob Goff who happens to be one of my mentors even though he does not know it. You do know that people can mentor you from afar by the very lives they are living. Okay back to my story. As I am listening to the audio I suddenly see that my sink is messy and the tub also so I grabbed my toxic free cleaner (that’s another story) and started cleaning out my tub then my sink then I see that the shower has needed cleaning for more days, okay weeks than I will admit. So I start to tackle that as well when I remember that I am listening to an audio book on being distracted!!!!!
I start laughing at myself and I see the lesson inherent in this and realize that so many things distract me from what God intends for me and his intention is for me to have a peaceful and love filled life!!!!! Bob mentioned in his book that much of our distraction is comparing ourselves to others and that comparison distracts us from what is meant for us. Comparison is leading us away from ourselves!!!!
I don’t know about you but I don’t want anything to lead me away from myself. I am striving at this point in my life to be more authentically me!!!! If it does not feel like it was meant for me I want to move in the other direction. Just like my distraction this morning I laughed and asked God in the same breath to keep me on the path that is my best path for my best life. And you know what happens when I am courageous enough to do that, it gives others the permission to do the same!!! Hey maybe I am someone’s mentor and don’t know it and you can be too. I can only do that by being the best of me to bring the best to you.
So here I am on my bed typing this blog to you because I was distracted and wanted you to know it!! So back to my preparation for my podcast today!!!
By the way, writing to you and sharing my heart with you is the best way to be Undistracted because loving all of you is the whole point!!!
So very grateful for this full life and giving myself grace to figure it out,
Karen Key Smith
