Have you ever tried to organize your life on paper? I do this periodically when I need a good laugh. You know, you put everything down, all those "100 goals" lists and everything you have jotted on scrap paper and the odd journal. Everything. Maybe you get fancy, like I do, color coding everything - purple is for business, green is for self care, red is for the web - and then once you think you have all the crystals in the kaleidoscope-that-is-you out on the page you try to figure out how to do those crystals justice by figuring out when and how you are going to achieve all those plans you are now envisioning.
I have a tip for you that will save you lots of time.
First ask yourself this: Why?
I like that I can do lots of things (doing and mastering being different concepts of course). In the past, my lists have included things like finding time for gourmet cooking, harvesting wild berries and making my own jams, knitting and crocheting, taking a massage course, learning Spanish, learning how to play an instrument, having regular parties, planning retreats, doing martial arts, yoga, meditation, gardening....
You get the idea.
Sure, I have been able for spans of a few good weeks, even with a full time job, to accomplish an impressive amount of what I had set out to do but I could never sustain it. In fact, it almost seemed that the more I achieved the more new ideas I came up with. I like to call those "bright and shinies." My husband described it this way:
"Living with you is exciting. You're like a chimp with a revolver."
I had to admit it was an apt description. It's fun to have an active, creative brain and to keep it engaged but my mounting list of 'false starts' often made me feel guilty. After all, I took a class in massage, now I'm not doing it. I bought that cookbook and now it is sitting there. Oh, the garden needs weeding all season long? Bummer. Start and stop and start and stop and spend for a new solution/book/tool/technique to keep me focused and start REALLY this time and... stop.
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