Making Sense
by Carolyn ~ February 2nd, 2009. Filed under: 2 - NaBloPoMo, About Me, Goals.OK - I have it figured out. I’m comfortable with this. There is a blog — Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online - where “you’ll find tips and resources to help you increase your creativity, be more productive, and simplify your life.” At the beginning of the year, she did an entry: 99-powerful-questions-to-ask-to-turbocharge-your-life/.
Lots of bloggers have embraced this entry, and set out to answer them. Alot of them did them in one entry. Others spread them out in 3 or 4 entries. I linked it to my sidebar, and in the back of my mind, I was thinking I would take my time with it, and do one a day at some point in time. But, I have decided this will be one of my writing projects for February. If I do 5 questions a day, I should be able to complete it in February. Doing 5 a day allows me to miss a day or two here and there.
This will work. I’m good with this.
I also had another idea that I’m going to work on. Its along the lines of the 31 goals. List Making time. Only on a more dramatic scale. There is a website out there that people have been working on for years. I remember putting a list together when I was at Xanga — and that was back in 2002-2003. It is 101 Things in 1001 Days. The concept is to make a list of things you would like to have done over the next 1001 days. It can be anything, because its about you. You can challenge yourself, or do a bucket list of things you want to do before you die. Or simple stuff like roasting marshmallows with the family. The key thing is, you capture the moment, write about it, and cross it off your list.
I have seen someone do this with her love of reading. 101 books in 1001 days.
So. My idea is this, and I am going to spend the month of February putting this list together, and starting it in March. 101 Writing Projects in 1001 days. There are all kinds of memes and taggings going on out there — ones that I have thought about doing, but just never got around to them. This will bring them all together in one spot, and help me to focus on just one thing.
I know this all sounds silly and the thought of “get a life” keeps coming to mind. But, what keeps swirling around in my head is that my thoughts about things like this are like eye exercises when you have a lazy eye. You take something, and you focus on it to make your eye better. I am so bad about wanting everything — now — and bouncing from thing to thing, and never spending any time on just one. I used to change my layouts to my blogs very very frequently. I was known as the “queen of change”. People never knew what to expect any given time they came to visit. I would often change the look out every few days. Loving what I had, but wanting “all of them”. I am finally settling down in this area, and that is a good feeling Sticking with just the one look. Yes, I continue to mess with the sidebar, and changing it, but those feelings that compell me to do that can’t or won’t go away totally. So, at least just keeping the same layout is a step in the right direction.
My thought here is, if I can take something that I really like to do, and mold it to the way I want it to be, in a mature, responsible way … no frequent change outs, focus on thing, or set 1 or 2 writing goals, and stick to them. Set a goal(s) each month, and follow through … then maybe I can follow this through to the rest of my life that suffers in the same way, and make the changes there that I am making here. On the surface, I know it all looks shallow and there is more to life than blogging. But. I have to start somewhere. And when I try to tackle the really big things — the things that are important and the things I should be focusing on … I get overwhelmed. So, I start here. Show myself that I am capable of change and focusing, and then move on up the ladder.
I know it probably doesn’t make sense. But it makes sense to me, and thats all that matters.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Sounds like a good plan! I haven’t joined any challenges or anything similar because lately I haven’t done too well at committing!