Each year I give myself something to work on. Generally it’s a concept which takes time to cultivate or develop. I started this when I realised I really needed to work on my health, sleeping 10-hours a day, unable to exercise without fatigue, and not reacting well to food. I gave myself a year to work on my health, slowly ticking off specialists and other avenues and that time worked. From health to the next step, fitness. That was the following year as I rode my bike a lot and ran a lot getting fit again.
Having a yearly intention isn’t like a goals, it’s more about a board attention to many aspects within your life, and allows sublty to be applied, and space to do it. It’s non-specific, and allows things to gradually change, giving patience through time.
This past year my intentions were: abnormality, and generosity. Abnormality, doing things out of habit has been a valuable lesson. It has been applying mindfulness, or conscious attention to my daily doings, and trying to see things as they are instead of rushing through them with my habits. Generosity for me was financial, though there are many more dimensions to generosity than financial, I wanted to work on this aspect of it. In the past I have focused on having less (the negative aspect of it), but reversing that focus was healthy, and I am going to continue to carrying that into 2010
What else am I going to work on in 2010? I’m not sure yet. I look at this in two ways. What I need to work on, and what I would like to work on. Sometimes it is hard to see the things we need to work on so I shall think, investigate, and ask those close to me for their honest opinion. Meanwhile it’s feedback time from you – what do you think I need to work on?
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