No I’m not confused, and I’m not crazy – just thinking outside the box. The calendar doesn’t change today, there’s no big celebration, no fireworks, in reality few people will recognize the significance, but today is my birthday, my new year. Which works well for me since in our society we tend to equate the New Year with resolutions and I am resolved to change my world.
Well maybe not “my world” – I have a wonderful husband and a 16yr old daughter that is near perfect in her adolescent imperfection, I have a job that I enjoy and am fairly good at. We own our home, it’s modest but enough for the three of us, and it’s affordable. My relationship with my family is good. So it’s not my world that needs changing but more how I interact with it.
I am now officially 43 years old. That's not a complaint, just simply statement of fact. I’ve never been the one to complain about getting older; true I’m not thrilled about the side effects, but are my aches and pains more to be blamed on age or lifestyle?? Hence the resolutions…
I may be being overly ambitious but I am resolved to start making changes in 9 major areas of my life. Is that crazy? Probably. Is it impossible? Absolutely not. Most of my goals overlap, and ultimately it’s all from the same place, it's all about making me a better person. Here's the short list of what I'm planning to focus on:
I may be being overly ambitious but I am resolved to start making changes in 9 major areas of my life. Is that crazy? Probably. Is it impossible? Absolutely not. Most of my goals overlap, and ultimately it’s all from the same place, it's all about making me a better person. Here's the short list of what I'm planning to focus on:
Exterior Me
My Mess
My Stuff
My Relationships
My Work Life
My Creative Self
My Commitment
My Money
Interior Me
Not necessarily in that order, really I prefer to think of it as not having an order at all but as a concurrent thing. It all ties together - losing some weight will impact how I feel about myself which will likely impact my sales job which will definitely improve my cash flow. Purging a large chunk of my things will make it much easier to control the mess which in turn will make more room and opportunity to be creative and hopefully that leads to more income. It's all about that improving me and how I interact with my world.
That is obviously the very short list; over the next days and weeks I'll record more of the details and my progress. Today starts simply enough with a very detailed to-do list and recording the befores.
That is obviously the very short list; over the next days and weeks I'll record more of the details and my progress. Today starts simply enough with a very detailed to-do list and recording the befores.
Getting this posted lets me cross one big item off today's list (and qualifies for at least 3 of my goals - it's creative, I'm following through on what I set out to do and it's about what's going on inside of me).
Happy New Year. Wish me luck...
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