It’s 2016 and time to make those resolutions. Hmmm….which ones should I commit to this year? Which ones will I realistically keep? Don’t think too hard about the ones I might just fail miserably at. Or just maybe—I may succeed?
I made a list of a few things I hope to accomplish this year, but all of them can be summed up by one desire:
To better live each day and moment with intentionality, purpose, and organization.
I’ve been a bit overwhelmed in 2015 and have been dealing with some anxieties. The problem with anxiety is this; it’s like interest -– it compounds. The more you think about all that makes you anxious, the more your anxiety exponentially increases. Meanwhile, the law of entropy continues to thrive: Things fall apart—continually. Everything decays as time passes. Anxiety plus entropy is hard enough, but if you add procrastination to the mix?
Aye yi-yi. The triple threat of the unproductive life has arrived.
Because with each passing moment, our internal time clock knows we have one less minute to sort thru the complexities of life than we had a minute ago.
Are you stressed yet? If you’re still reading this, you’ve already lost one minute of your busy day. You could’ve plowed thru an email or two, perhaps deleted 8 or 10 junk ones, but for whatever reason you’re still here. So I’ll try to cut to the chase.
I like to write. I’m also kinda-sorta trying to grow a photography business—I think. Or put it this way, my hobby is trying to stretch me in new directions that I’m trying to decide if I wish to pursue. While still homeschooling full-time. And working part-time, minimally, but responsibilities still beckon. Oh, and be available for a mom who is getting older. There’s also time allotted for church, scouts, sports, clubs, groups, and time invested still with grown children by attempting to know their busy schedules and still have time to hear their plans and dreams for the future. There are chores, emails, voicemails, texts, bills, and requests. Then there are gadgets galore with menus, parts, batteries, and well….issues. It’s all too much.
I’ve been feeling this epiphany brewing in me for some time now:
I actually already know what I need to do. You probably know too.
We have to do less, in order to do more, or at least do better.
But what to give up?
For me, I know that I know that I know: I absolutely am going to have to get off social media a lot more in 2016. I know people don’t really want, need or care to know my every whimsical thought, opinion about, or plans for “x”. And though I love sharing so many photos, or even my writing, I have to brace myself with this fact:
I’m overwhelmed with all that’s out there, you probably are too.
So here we are. Three minutes gone for you, thirty for me. We have some decisions to make this year don’t we? How now, do we spend this moment, this day that we’ve been given?
Sometimes we have to just scroll on by it all. So much information is out there. But we have to just turn away and keep going, if we’re going to get anything done at all. We have to not look sometimes, and do it fast.
A little less Facebook, Instagram, and Tweets? Oh well.
It’s okay if we don’t know it all. It’s not like we can fix it all anyway. It’s okay if we don’t respond to what all seems urgent. No comment does not equate to doesn’t care. It’s okay if we choose to “miss out” on the people’s news sometimes. The world isn’t going anywhere. And honestly, on some days I’d rather not know the news, be it world news or social news. I just want to live in the solitude of my cocoon for a day or so.
Call it weird. Call it antisocial. Call it worrisome. Call it intelligent. Call it rebellious. I just call it the Liberation of Liz.
May 2016 find you at peace. Be well as you navigate your life this year and all its complex priorities.
LIZ LOGIC 