If I learned anything from the time at home in my air conditioning during the pandemic, it was to slow down. I’m not sure that I would have ever really learned this lesson had the pandemic not forced me to stay at home. The office with the zone controlled HVAC sent us all home in the late spring of 2020. That’s when I got a crash course in the fact that there is more to life than staying busy and checking things off my list. Working from home in my own air conditioning certainly took some time to get accustomed to doing well. But I got the hang of it and ended up actually sort of liking being at home to work. For one, I got a lot more work done without all the constant interruptions and useless meetings. It also allowed me to have a bit more control of my schedule which helped me to be even more present in my life. I started doing yoga and meditating to start my day. Each evening, I’d get out of the air conditioning to take a walk and just breathe. That was really nice. A wonderful byproduct of this change was that I was just so much more engaged with the moment. That’s new for me. But being aware actually saved me a bunch of money when it came to the HVAC equipment. I was able to hear just the slightest change in the sound of the HVAC unit. And that got me to call the HVAC company to have an HVAC professional take a look. Turns out, there was a part going bad that had it failed, it would have cost me a bunch of money in an HVAC repair.
