Goals?
Not exactly.
Plan?
Too concrete.
Trying to think of what to call my replacement for New Year’s Resolutions. Last year worked out so well for me that I’m going double or nothing! Rather than produce a list of potential failures I decided, on good advice of my brilliant friend SARAH, to choose how I wanted to live and who I wanted to be each year.
(Yes. That IS the sound of the sky parting and the Hallelujah chorus.)
This year I would like to live on purpose and chose wisely my focus’s. (Or foci? Choose what I focus on more wisely. That’s what I meant. I defer to the first English expert that comments me the correct correction.)
Remember THIS? It is time to live my life on purpose. Daily. Living on purpose means being an active participant in life, no victim, no “innocent” bystanding, just participating and doing it on purpose. It's about living, not just letting life happen to me.
And then there’s focus. I read this somewhere this year-can’t find where I got it from so if it’s from you feel free to speak up! Or maybe it’s Oprah. She’s my default. If it’s great and I can’t figure out where it came from…she’s a likely suspect.
At the end of the day you either focus on what’s tearing you apart or you focus on what’s holding you together. Either way-it’s a choice.
Such an Ah-ha moment. Either way It’s a choice! Choose to focus on the haters or focus on the support people. Focus on the drama or focus on the joy.
IT. IS. A. CHOICE!
So 2010 peace out girl scout!
2011 Bring it on baby!
Focused and On Purpose.
It’s going to be a good one, I can feel it.
-McGee
My thoughts... Based on my own ordinary existance. And sometimes extraordinary experiences.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
peace-out 2010.
1 year
12 months
52 weeks (or is it 53?)
8,760 hours
FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED MINUTES
(Insert RENT theme song here)
Looking back I cannot believe a year has passed since THIS POST. Last year I decided I was through with New Year’s Resolution lists, also known as the list that leads to failure or how I make myself feel bad by March 1st every year. I wanted to live 2010 more openly and more creatively.
I WON!
I DID IT!
For the first time in my 34 years I actually succeeded.
And man it feels good!
2010 held a hell of a lot of CHALLENGES, buckets of CHANGE (not the jangling kind-the painful kind) and many, many BLESSINGS. I had people affect my life that I would care to never see again and made friends whom I hope will be in my life for as long as they can lovingly tolerate me! I have been open to other people and the way they do things (even Mr. Man a time or two, I’m still working on that one. He has been right more, lately...thinking that's more about me than him...hmmm). I have written more, opened myself up more and been less perfect out in the open.
Result?
A blissfully open and creative life.
(For the most part-I mean, really-who’s perfect?)
It’s been amazing and freeing. I did lose some of those pounds I wanted to get rid of. I did change some habits I had been meaning to change and I made more money than the year before but the list was never the focus.
So as I sit down to write out my new focus for 2011 I raise a glass to 2010 and am secretly glad it’s over! It’s time to refresh and renew and move on!
Check me out Wednesday for the new plan!
(GASP-I didn’t mean PLAN plan, we all know what happens when McGee makes a plan...God's laughed enough lately!)
-McGee
12 months
52 weeks (or is it 53?)
8,760 hours
FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED MINUTES
(Insert RENT theme song here)
Looking back I cannot believe a year has passed since THIS POST. Last year I decided I was through with New Year’s Resolution lists, also known as the list that leads to failure or how I make myself feel bad by March 1st every year. I wanted to live 2010 more openly and more creatively.
I WON!
I DID IT!
For the first time in my 34 years I actually succeeded.
And man it feels good!
2010 held a hell of a lot of CHALLENGES, buckets of CHANGE (not the jangling kind-the painful kind) and many, many BLESSINGS. I had people affect my life that I would care to never see again and made friends whom I hope will be in my life for as long as they can lovingly tolerate me! I have been open to other people and the way they do things (even Mr. Man a time or two, I’m still working on that one. He has been right more, lately...thinking that's more about me than him...hmmm). I have written more, opened myself up more and been less perfect out in the open.
Result?
A blissfully open and creative life.
(For the most part-I mean, really-who’s perfect?)
It’s been amazing and freeing. I did lose some of those pounds I wanted to get rid of. I did change some habits I had been meaning to change and I made more money than the year before but the list was never the focus.
So as I sit down to write out my new focus for 2011 I raise a glass to 2010 and am secretly glad it’s over! It’s time to refresh and renew and move on!
Check me out Wednesday for the new plan!
(GASP-I didn’t mean PLAN plan, we all know what happens when McGee makes a plan...God's laughed enough lately!)
-McGee
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