Mindfulness Cards

One of the Kickstarter projects I backed, back when I was backing regularly, was Cards for Mindfulness. They arrived last week, so I brought them up here to Portland with me for this week. I figured, if nothing else, they would be pretty to look at (I crack me up).

I opened the box this morning to check out the cards, and share them with the O's. The cards are oversized with a matte finish, not sealed. There are 6 cards in 8 categories, packed so that they were grouped into categories. I immediately sorted them into 6 groups of cards, each with 8 different categories in them, and pulled the first one off the top.

It was "There is always more."

The card is talking about boredom, and how even when you're bored, if you concentrate harder on the details, the boredom goes away.

Thing is, I'm very rarely bored.

I recall Scott saying when I was way younger, "Smart people never get bored, they're just in between doing two things."

I don't know if I'm able to just have enough to think about, or the modern cultural norm of having a phone to distract oneself, means I am not ever (or very, very rarely) bored.

I almost immediately gave up on this card. Until I talked to J-man about it. He commented that maybe during doing something, you have the realization that, "Damn, I'm bored." And maybe that moment is when this card is applicable.

So, this card didn't really apply today, but perhaps in the future, I'll have a moment of "I'm bored," and I can apply this mindfulness technique of looking more closely, there is always more.