I’ve spent the day in a bit of a fog thinking about what is important for the first quarter of the year. My brain refuses to turn on and I am having a more difficult time being gentle today.  My patience for being patient is wearing off.  It is odd how our culture is obsessed with reinventing ourselves every January, only to rituallistically fail in the coming days, weeks and months. What is the odd pleasure we get from this?
Instead of just jumping into setting goals, especially since I don’t really feel like I know where I am or where I am trying to go, I thought I’d start with a “wheel of life” activity. Interestingly, it’s more balanced than some times when I’ve done this. At the moment, what is drawing my interest is paying attention to my physical environment, fun and recreation, and money. I’m mostly going to focus my non-maintainence effort for the next few weeks on these areas. It’s not that I’m going to stop working on my business, or ignore eating, but I’m putting (re)newed energy into these areas.
With this realizatrion, suddenly, the goal settign was much clearer. I still wanted to do the same things, but they felt more substantial when I felt I could relate them to specific areas of interest. Now, I’m hardly talking epic goals: I want to clean my room, do laundry, do my taxes and set up a budget. Not necessairly your traditionally inspiring areas, but knowing that these affect that I wnat to feel different about my physical space and be clearer about I want to relate to money, they feel far less random and disjointed. It’s sort of like categorizing my mental bucket list makes it feel less pointless.  There is a bigger why to doing them.
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