The beginning of a new year
varina8 was here last night for dinner, during and after which we talked long and wide-rangingly (it's a word now, thank you) about the future, figuring out what we want, making choices in a way that fits with where we are in our lives and so on. This resonated strongly with a conversation I had recently with davidlevine in which he talked about creating a list of cool and impossible things he wanted to do--which resulted in his impending trip to Mars.
I need to make some lists. I need to make a list of cool things I've done over the last few years, trips I've taken, things I've accomplished, and so on. This will surely help encourage my work on the other two lists I'm going to make. The second list will be things I need to do--stuff around the house, stuff for my personal health and well-being, etc. And the last list will be a list of cool and impossible things I want to do. My life is filled with people who do cool and apparently-not-so-impossible impossible things. I've been one of those people, too. I want to be that person again.
Some of this is time-of-life stuff. Some of it is a way to get control and set some goals. Some of it is exercising my strong inclination to indulge in wishing, an exercise I often discourage in myself due to financial constraints or practical considerations. Sometimes these things must be tossed out in favor of encouraging my inner visionary.
I'm also starting as I intend to continue: I'm calling or writing folks I haven't been in touch with in a while. I'm trying to focus my energy on things that will bear fruit, not things that eat me up and make me unhappy. (That last one's a big one, and in only a few days I've been more successful than I thought I'd be; it's had to do with taking control of the things I can control and finding ways to divert my energy when I start obsessing over that which I can't control.)
We'll see how it goes. Like the icon says, I want to believe I can do this. I've made a small start, but a good one.
I need to make some lists. I need to make a list of cool things I've done over the last few years, trips I've taken, things I've accomplished, and so on. This will surely help encourage my work on the other two lists I'm going to make. The second list will be things I need to do--stuff around the house, stuff for my personal health and well-being, etc. And the last list will be a list of cool and impossible things I want to do. My life is filled with people who do cool and apparently-not-so-impossible impossible things. I've been one of those people, too. I want to be that person again.
Some of this is time-of-life stuff. Some of it is a way to get control and set some goals. Some of it is exercising my strong inclination to indulge in wishing, an exercise I often discourage in myself due to financial constraints or practical considerations. Sometimes these things must be tossed out in favor of encouraging my inner visionary.
I'm also starting as I intend to continue: I'm calling or writing folks I haven't been in touch with in a while. I'm trying to focus my energy on things that will bear fruit, not things that eat me up and make me unhappy. (That last one's a big one, and in only a few days I've been more successful than I thought I'd be; it's had to do with taking control of the things I can control and finding ways to divert my energy when I start obsessing over that which I can't control.)
We'll see how it goes. Like the icon says, I want to believe I can do this. I've made a small start, but a good one.