A whole New Year or Something

I changed over the calendars the other day. But otherwise moving from 2012 to 2013 hasn't felt all that remarkable. 

It doesn't feel like a new year to me. I like seeing all the “Be more of yourself in 2013!” “Make this your year!” motivational posts on my facebook wall; and by like I mean I’ll put up with them until I have to suffer through all the valentines and anti-valentines posts that should start up in about 2 weeks.

My son is in elementary school so his ‘new year’ started back in September in that same month I started a new job. This job goes until June so I’m really in the middle of my year right now.

That being said, it does feel like this is MY YEAR! And that is has been for awhile.  I have been more myself in the last 6 months than I may ever have been in my entire adult life.

Last spring, in April to be exact, I posted a note on the wall of my office that said, “A year from now you’ll wish you started today,” Seeing that every day changed things for me.

Things also changed for me when I read a lifehacker article about procrastination. The article suggested that every time you find yourself saying, “I don’t have time to do this”, or “I can’t make time to do that,” to change the wording of the statement to, “I haven’t made it a priority to do this (or that),” and see how your thoughts change.

For a long time I’ve been saying, “I just don’t have time to write,” something I love doing. Changing that to, I haven’t made it a priority to write hurt. It actually physically hurt deep, deep in my body.

So I changed that. Also made sure that I adjusted my thinking every time I starting to say, I just don’t have time, I re-examined the thought and asked myself about its priority. 

Sometimes I did chose to say, I don’t have time because I really did (do) have better things to do with my time.

This change has helped me over the past while create a list of priorities that are meaningful, spiritual and productive.

Today I’m meeting with a ‘publishing coach’, who will help me navigate the publishing world. I wrote and illustrated a children’s book last year and this year I’m making the time to work on getting it published.

I don’t know how I will make this happen, hence the coach, but it will happen. I have also made a priority to start on another children’s story, but that’s for another post.

Not a whole lot of wreckage in this post, but I am seeing the beginnings of creation from the wreckage.

I didn't write this, but I like it. 

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