What do you listen to while you work?

When I am working, particularly when sitting down and writing I sometimes have the radio on listening to my favourite channel 104.9, or ABC102.5, or Slim Dusty, The Seekers and other favourites on a CD player.

But while I am working most of this be at Radio or CDD his background and half the time I don’t hear it, let alone listen to it in the true sense of listening. That means that I can’t necessarily recall what it is I’ve listened to because whilst I’ve listened I haven’t heard.

What I do listen to when I am working is my conscious mind, which often visits issues both past and present to remind me of history, how I manage things in times past, and how I might tackle contemporary problems and current issues.

I’ve outsourced the tasks I undertake, I think that I’ve had more solutions to problems or more ideas about directions I should follow going forward whilst hanging or packing clothes on the line than any other forum in which I manually operate.

Sometimes good ideas come to my listening to my mind while I’m digging, gardening, watering, picking fruit, Vacuuming the floor, and carrying out other tasks. But for some reason picking clothes on the line seems to be more conducive to listening to my brain and then following through on suggestions it makes to me while I am listening, and in any other forum of activity or sedentariness.

Over the years countless solutions to problematic issues and countless suggestions over tackling tasks have come from me listening to my mind while working.

That listening has also caused me to come up with good ideas about constructing approaches to education and learning within the schools in which I was with the Principal.

My working self self thanks my thinking self for listening to myself.