God Temperature.

Uncategorized Jun 29, 2019

This morning my alarm went off at 5 am.

And I found myself in bed with the bed temperature absolutely perfect.

I don’t know if you have had this experience, but it is where the bed enters the perfect feeling of warmth as if I was being cuddled by angels.

Outside of this experience was a cold house.

I live in a Queenslander house, so there are literally gaps in places in the floorboards where I can look down and see the ground below.

It is definitely not a sealed house.

So it is cold.

Not Melbourne or Tasmania cold, but still, it is cold.

So faced with this dilemma, I chose to meditate in bed.

Inhale love, exhale gratitude.

As you can imagine if you have done meditation, this leads me back into a dream/sleep state and finally, at 5.51am I managed to get myself out of bed.

Having “lost” 51 minutes of my morning I then proceeded to quickly step through the rest of routine…

An angry stack instead of a mega stack, a messenger text to my brother instead of a post-it note for my kids…

This intensity of action actually let me get through the routine by 7.07am and I was feeling pretty good.

The reason to discuss this is finding that comfort has a cost.

It was amazing to stay in bed for the extra 51 minutes but I had to make it up to be ready in time for my kids to get up.

And tomorrow I risk sleeping in again and beginning a habit that does not serve me.

So the principle I see here is that my decisions are governed by my commitments.

If I had a stronger commitment this morning, like there was something devastating that was going to happen to my family if I did not get out of bed by 5am, then… I would have been out of bed.

This morning my “why” was lacking and hence the choice to stay in the God temperature.

So — I must review what I am committed to.

Then it doesn’t matter what life gives me — pain or pleasure… the path of the commitment must be walked irrespective of the momentary sensations.

Right now, my commitment is to Key Feature General Practice.

It’s not perfect but it helps me so much as a GP I cannot imagine doing GP another way.

If you are interested in finding out how Key Feature General Practice can help you, then I invite you to head over to https://graduatemedicine.com/gpea now.

And, I invite you to take the opportunity to look at the relationship between your decisions and your commitments and whether you need to clarify your “why” in life too.

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