— T.S. Eliot
Thank you for your response to my post yesterday. I promised to share my answers with you – so here goes:
If you were to FULLY live your life, what is the first change you would start to make?
That’s a difficult question to answer because there are many changes I want to and need to make in the way I live my life. But the first change would be – to keep my promises to myself. These promises include making better use of my time and taking better care of my health.
What do you want MORE of in your life?
- Positive energy – to achieve what I set out to do.
- Gratitude – to have a truly grateful heart – I have so much to be thankful for.
- Generosity of spirit – to think better of people and situations and to see some one’s need and reach out.
- Humor – not to take myself too seriously.
- Openness to criticism – to take feedback positively and look for how I can change.
- Dreaming – I want to continue to dream and work on my dreams.
- Reading- a lot of catching up to do.
- Openness to inspiration – to make a conscious decision to be inspired – inspiration is all around me.
- Regrets – no looking back.
- Procrastination – especially in the area of my fitness.
- Bitterness – towards people who’ve hurt me
- Pettiness – being small minded
- Wasting time – sometimes surfing the Internet too much, or working on a blog template rather than content!
- Putting off my walks or yoga sessions
- Negative talk about people and situations – especially in the past – serves no purpose at all.
I’ve always wanted to learn swimming because I love water. However, in 2007, I went for a few coaching sessions at which I failed miserably. I would try to learn again…..
It would be easy for me not to make any promises to myself for 2010 – having been so bad at keeping these in the past. But every new brings a new promise. In the words of G K Chesterton, The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
Wishing you a new soul in the new year!
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Wish you a terrific new year ahead for you and your family Corinne! All your wishes for the next almost completely reflect what I would want too…but I'd add taking care of my health in addition to all those you mentioned here!
Thanks Corinne! Wish you a very happy new year.P.S. I've been away because your blog did not permit me to save my comments till now, for some reason. x-(
Hey Corinne, maybe you should revisit your philosophy of exercise. To me there is a very western concept of exercise as drudgery, discipline, something to do and get over with. For me it is a joy- my capoeria excercise is also enhancing my spirit and body skills like balance that enhance my entire life-it's spiritual as well as physical. My friend and I walk and talk about life and philosophy and sometimes I get so into the conversation I hardly realize how far we've walked. My advise to you is maybe revisit your view of exercise and find something to do that's fun or enriching or purposeful, then it wont seem like drudgery. To me my walks are the highpoint of my day- I'm working on my philosphy of cleaning- that's where I need new insight!- good luck, Enjoy!