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I SHORTENED MY MUST DO LIST
Thursday July 9, 2015
Sets of reminders, remind me, every day of things to do, remember, not forget, get done, keep track of, diarize. Argh)%%#*!+!
Priority setting guides – or litmus tests?
Or shackles that hobble my every movement?
There is never a moment, never a perception of their being a moment, when everything is done and I can view the day or week ahead as a completely clean slate.
I wish for that. In many respects I feel I am close. Only because when many things are cleared away, I will be free to tackle back-burner projects I’ve back-burnered far too long …
So, back-burnered that long, does it have real value, is it compelling enough to do now?
How many lists?
Categories, priorities?
To sort out life, I regularly organize, re-organize, re-prioritize – always felt I had to.
Still do, but softening my view as resolve gets clearer.
Is four enough?
Do they go far enough?
Set on finding/defining meaning of life, still, I’m no further ahead than Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmellin the 1960’s or Viktor Frankl surviving a concentration camp – we all seek meaning.
YES, finding meaning of life remains an important quest. But life having meaning seems to trump that in my mind …
Resolution in some form, feeling nearer, or clearer, I’ve been trying to measure many things against my ‘hot list’ and ‘warm list’ - four silos of activity (yes, that’s eight groups of things that might be better sorted into two – ‘do’ and ‘do later’ … or ‘do not do’).
These headings might better organize my life, sort my mind, manage my day …
What I love
What I hate but must sometime do (ie: accounting, taking out trash, being nice to everyone)
What I want
What I don’t want
Which boils down into two groups which intersect somewhat: what I love, what I want
Sorts this way for me:
#1 what I love and want
#2 what I love
#3 what I want
Why #2 or #3 … if I can have #1?
There is nothing in life that I, or anyone, MUST do, except for one: we must die.
Everything else is choice.
We do what we choose.
Then we die.
I prefer to keep choosing. I may not have found the meaning of life, but this way of thinking leaves me a far better sense that I am living a life with meaning …
Mark Kolke
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 17C/62F, mostly clear, steady breeze – horizon was set ablaze again this morning; Gusta’s return to normal demeanor after here kennel-holiday has returned to normal and we had a very peaceful walk, both of us doing lots of thinking, organizing our today and tomorrow in silence ..,
Reader feedback:
MY TUB HAS A POINT TO IT
Your thoughts are very much aligned with the post I got today from Neal Donald Walsh: If you are involved in some kind of project right now, or launching any personal endeavor, your enthusiasm (or lack of it) will directly determine how successful this undertaking will be. If you are not excited at the core of your being by it, drop it right now. If you are excited at the core of your being, demonstrate that in everything you think and say and do. Enjoy the soak!, LG, Calgary, AB
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