Showing posts with label WOTY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WOTY. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2011

New Year's Reselution

As the end of this year approaches, I reflect on what I've accomplished.
Sound of air coming out of a tire comes to mind.
Such intentions, desires and a misplaced New Year's Res List.
HMMMM

As I stated in the previous post I have been scanning blogs.
I came across one that caught my attention. Subject matter: NYRL and how, at the end of the year feeling deflating because of the lack of hash marks on this most honored LIST. I have even gone to the extent of just not making any because I knew I would not keep them and at the end of the year feel deflated instead of energized for the next one.

Talk is cheep and I am living proof. I have talked and talked about accomplishing something and without the concentrated effort to basically change a life long habit failed to accomplish it.  In the past years my list of NYR have included: healing, organizing, losing weight, getting in shape, family,simplifying.  Normally all on one list. Kinda crazy...not simple, cluttered, and certainly not focused.

I plan on trying a different approach.

It takes intense physical and mental energy for one to seriously commit to accomplishing a goal. To think you can accomplish ALL of them...well that is only for comic books.

For a Marksman to hit the Target dead center takes extreme FOCUS, and commitment to accomplishing that goal.   Ever heard of Jack of all trades, Master of none.

Name your year. Focus on becoming a master.
Naming your year is only the the First Step.
How will you arrange or rearrange your schedule to accommodate the energy you must exert to accomplish your goal this year?  What will you give up?

Think about it. You have 2 months to decide. Make a list, narrow your focus and choose your target. Choose one and only ONE.  Be careful in choosing to broad of a target that the target is fuzzy.

Name YOUR year.

Mine is THE YEAR OF ...............


Thursday, May 20, 2010

SIMPLIFY

Word of the Year.

While surfing some wonderful blogs I came across many ideas that I am gonna borrow. I will start with:

Word of the Year.

One word, to help launch me into action, to BE better, to DO better, to accomplish things, to remember my strengths, to toss my weaknesses out of the way and never let them define "who I am"... all in a single word. I love this concept.

Though normal people would do this at the beginning of the year for let's say....New Years...I'm just gonna jump in right where I am at. I'm not gonna wait till next year to roll around, no sir.

Geez, one word? I have so many...... but focus on one I must.

Well my first WOTY is easy to choose. I have been trying unsuccessfully to de-clutter, de junk, just plain GET RID of stuff. Hard thing is, I like my stuff. Each thing I pick up I think, ooohh, I can re-use, re-purpose, re-gift, up-cycle etc etc. Memories attached to the physical things that if I get rid of, the memories will fade and be lost forever. But if a magic fairy came along and got rid of all my stuff and I just had the bare essentials, I would be ok. I just cant be there to say farewell.
Am I really the only one like this? Oh, well.