{"id":3039,"date":"2009-06-02T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:56:41","slug":"what-a-difference-a-change-in-perception-makes-billing-as-a-spiritual-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-a-difference-a-change-in-perception-makes-billing-as-a-spiritual-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a change in perception makes….. Billing as a spiritual practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had the greatest drive ever to Ocala and Cassadaga.\u00a0 Yes, I was just there last week but, as I wrote about on May 26th at Pinning Myself In And Getting Myself Out Of it<\/a>, I had miscalculated and not had enough magazines with me the first time.\u00a0 Oh, what a grumpy last trip that was!\u00a0 This time, I’d gotten caught up on work and created the day off for myself.\u00a0 I thought of it as a vacation day drive rather than a delivery run.\u00a0 Thinking about it differently made me feel differently about it. <\/p>\n

I love the drive to Ocala, and this time I got to enjoy the scenery.\u00a0 Usually my drive time is filled with taking and returning business calls (I love my handsfree headset!<\/em>) but this time I got to chat with a friend for a short while, and that was fun.\u00a0 I seldom do purely social phone calls, since I spend so much of my work time on the phone.\u00a0 I notice I’ve trained myself to think of the phone as work.\u00a0 But yesterday the phone was fun, and all it took was a change in my perception.<\/p>\n

I love it when I newly notice some habit or routine I’ve unconsciously created for myself, and I just noticed another one.\u00a0 Each month I send out bills to all the advertisers.\u00a0 Billing is not my favorite thing to do, so I typically stretch out what could be a 4-5 hour job into sometimes a week.\u00a0 I use different techniques to motivate myself to bill; one of which is to use that time as spiritual practice, to send a blessing to the client whose name is before me.\u00a0 That sometimes segues into prayer and creative visualization time, and that’s when I let the time begin to get away with me.<\/p>\n

One trick I do is to, when I create my To Do list, I break up the billing into manageable bites.\u00a0 Abraham-Hicks<\/a> says we can eat an elephant one bite at a time, so instead of the daunting item “Begin Billing”, my list says:<\/p>\n

Bill A – G
\nBill H-O
\nBill P-Z<\/p>\n

Then Sunday I found myself dreading even seeing the reminder to begin billing.\u00a0 I had other things I wanted to do and I just didn’t want to do it.\u00a0 Then I reminded myself that I was giving too much importance to the task and I was making it loom larger than need be.\u00a0 So, on my To Do list, I crossed out Begin Billing<\/em> and changed it to Whip Through Billing<\/em>.\u00a0 I’ve done that before where I’ve simply sat down, stayed focused, got the work done in 4 hours and was on to whatever else I wanted to do.\u00a0 As soon as I wrote the words, how I felt about the task changed.\u00a0 All I’d done was change how I perceived the task, and I felt instant relief.<\/p>\n

I like the feeling of whipping through<\/em> my chores to get onto whatever else I want to do afterward. It makes it seem like such a small task – which it really is – and so easily doable. What a difference a change in perception makes.<\/p>\n

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