So now we’re coming to the part of the year where I reassess who I am, where I am, where I’m going, how I’m going to get there and who I’m willing to run around with on my way. I just started doing “morning pages” again and I’m reading Finding Water, the third book that I’ve read of Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” series. I get introspective and extroverted all at once, every December. It’s a tradition – an odd tradition, but a tradition none the less. And honestly, it works for me. I’ve never laid this all out so publicly before, but if I’m going to blog my whole life, I might as well blog my whole life.
So, let’s take it from the top.
About 150 years ago, I spent money I didn’t have on a Franklin Covey planner and it changed my life. I learned about prioritizing in a way that I had never thought of. I learned how to flesh out the ideas winking at me from the far reaches of my mind and bring them up front and center. 2009 will probably be the last year that I keep a paper calendar, but it has been invaluable to me to learn the Franklin Covey process and as digitally inclined as I am, I enjoy the literal practice of putting pen to paper. (Iphone is rapidly changing the way I do all that, though and I think that by next year I should have all the tools available to me that I need to continue these processes digitally.)
Maybe I’ll share the whole process as I go through it this year, or maybe I’ll just share the basics on how to – we’ll see how embarrassing my actual work is this year.
There are a few things I really would like to work into 2009 – but I’m not sure that I can do all of them. There’s a certain get together in Nashville the first weekend in February – there’s the Bead Expo in Santa Fe happening March 12-15, which just so happens to be right near my Aunt Teresa’s house and I’ve never been there, and I’ve only seens her once in the last decade, then there’s the BlogHer Conference in Chicago in July. Add to that, the noises that a couple of friends are making about coming to Florida for a visit next year. Mix that all up with some property management, jewelry design, webhosting and this writing thing that I’m trying to do, fold gently with some homeschooling and field trips and playdates and guitar lessons and horseback riding and… Really? Could someone please add about a hundred thousand dollars to my budget as well as about 14 more hours to each day? I’m getting tired just thinking about it, but I want to do all these things. I’m not willing to let any of them go. And that’s just if we keep things status quo – which I don’t want to do – I’m on a mission next year – I want to be far more physically active and I want to make changes to our family meals, cutting out even more of the processed food we consume and going a lot more organic. I want to cut down on animal protein and replace it with more healthful choices.
Ack! This is rambling all over the place and that was really not my intention. Heh, surprised? Like anyone ever says, “Hey look, I totally meant to ramble all over the place”. So with that, I think I’ll end it here. If you’d like to play along, I’ll add all of these posts to the “Self Care” category as I plan 2009 to be the best year yet.
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