Changes are afoot

Anyone who's read this blog for any length of time knows of my predilection for examining my life, determining what is working and what isn't, and making grand resolutions to change things for the better.

While the resolutions don't always pan out 100 percent, I hope that, in the paraprhased words of P.T. Barnum, by aiming for the moon maybe I'll shoot a star. Or something like that.

I'm a great one for making lists, making decisions, making plans. Sometimes they work, and sometimes I forget about them, and sometimes (as my husband can tell you) they crash and burn.

I'm learning to be okay with that, in the unfolding realization that life isn't about crossing things off my list. Life is about making the list and striving to reach it.

So. (You knew this had to preface something, right??)

I'm thinking that I'm getting too old to do/buy/have/accept things that I just don't love in my life. I don't want to settle. And I don't want to clutter my life with a million things I merely like and tolerate, allowing them to choke out the things I truly adore and yearn for.

Make sense? It does to me.

Some of the things I see when I look around me I can change right away. Some will take longer. Some may never get where I long for them to be. And that's all okay.

It's the movement and yearning and noticing and acting upon that is changing me, bit by bit.

Stay tuned.

Comments

[ragan]

hi! sounds big. i hope that you are doing alright. i will stay tuned for the changes. i think that i reached a point in my life where i decided something really big...just before turkey day. i acted on it, and hope that all goes well. change can be a really good thing.

[ragan]

oops...i hit post before i was finished. duh. i also wanted to tell you that i love the new festive look!

[moki]

ohhhh what are you giving up?! :)

[Lisa]

Yep...it's that season...I'm in reflecting/planning mode myself. :}

[maria]

You are so right...it's all a daily walk. A learning, realization, growing, accepting...and it's all good. :)

[tonya]

GOod for you! I agree 100% and need to take this seriously myself - especially with STUFF. Saying, as Ihave for years, that I need more room, is really not the solution. What I need is less stuff!
xoxo, t