I recently posted this picture on Facebook, along with a tag line about Bob being calm and centered, and I'm usually all over the place- busy, busy, BUSY!I love January, because it's a beautiful gift every year. A gift of new beginnings, a chance to tweak your life and make yourself better than you were last year. A fresh slate.
So I start January with a bunch of lists, and most of them are empty. For instance, I'll have a list where I will record every book I read that year, or every mile I run. Two nights ago, I was sitting in bed making a list in my journal, and Bob says to me, "What are you making a list of- things you plan to make lists of?"
All these lists mean one thing: I'm not short on motivation. What I AM short on is time and energy. So my big goals this year are:
1. Finish my manuscript.
2. Find an agent.
3. Sell the novel.
4. Run a sub 2 hour half marathon.
5. Run 1,000 miles (Or MORE!)
6. Read 52 books (Roughly one a week)
All of this while balancing my amazing family, and the job I hold dear to my heart: teaching. Oh, also throw in a move sometime this summer to... still don't know where yet.
It's enough to cause a heart spasm. So maybe goals are good. They're a starting place. And motivation is necessary to kick start me in the gut (thus sitting here ready to write before 6:00 am on a Wednesday morning).
But I think breathing is important too. And playing tea party with Margot without thinking about the other thousand things that need me at the moment.
Somehow it will all get done.
~Namaste~
1 comment:
Sounds inspiring Lizzy! I like lists too because you can cross things off and it shows you that you are getting somewhere. Although I seem to have a hard time with long term lists, mine are more like: do the dishes, clean the bathroom, update blog, etc :) GOOD LUCK with 2011! Can't wait to buy and read your first novel.. exciting stuff!!!
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