THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT
Monday, January 2, 2023
There is something consistent in my life I’m resolute in changing – not as a new year’s resolution, but as something better described as ‘it’s time has come’; too many things on my to-do lists when they should not have been on any list.
Its time is overdue!
I’m not talking about things I should delegate to others because it is their problem or responsibility to solve or self-polishing my apple.
While tossing all those to-do-wishes is a temptation, and I think everyone experiences that frustration, that it is all futility sometimes, but most of us, most of the time, avoid that …
This year is going to be different!
How many of us have said that before?
And how many years did we achieve that wish, that we made it into something different because we could no longer tolerate the way it was? I’m not talking about job changes, lifestyle changes, partnership dissolutions, or career course-correcting; I’m talking about changing the practices of the person inside us.
I cannot walk away from me, I cannot resign from being in my own employ, so I must change how I am me. Yes, a simple statement with a near-impossible goal …
A new year of plans, pursuits and ideas cannot flourish if I’m weighed down by too much ballast, too many incomplete goals and tasks, and incomplete promises to self and others; allowing so much to hold me back is neither intelligent nor aligned with my desires.
Because we know, rationally, that the load will lighten. Nibbling away at those nagging job-jar tasks at home or work will diminish. The more we work at them, the mountain gets smaller. But, like anything we do in small measures, it takes time to add up to something noticeable.
I’ve also learned that some things solve themselves before I get to them – or maybe because I never did.
I mean – the reinforcement that many of my problems were preventable. A mindset shift to not doing things which risk being on the failure heap is not what I mean.
So, what do I mean?
I’ve been spending some time lately cleaning up some old nagging problems.
I never have enough time, energy or cash to resolve them all.
It seems my consistent habit has been that with each elimination of a problem, a task, or an incomplete plan – I’ve consistently added another to my list, my never-ending pile of files and scribblings I need a pharmacist to decipher what I actually wrote when I made a note to myself in haste one day …
Reader feedback:
Hello Mark, Please accept my best wishes to you for a joyous and happy new year. Thank you for all that you do to make Calgary better. With best wishes, JG, Calgary, AB
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