Contemplation gives birth to action
The last two days of being laid flat out has given me a lot of contemplation time – I can’t read because my eyes burn, I can’t think because I have a headache, and I can’t move because I feel like a freight train ran me down but I can contemplate. And here are a few things that I am penciling in for my New Year’s Resolution:
1) Quit using Google. I realize that I am not alone in doing this, as a matter of fact women in general have a predisposition to do this and that is instead of filling out the URL with what I know is the name of what I am looking for, I search for it via Google. This practice makes Google extraordinarily powerful and gives them lots of information about me that I don’t necessarily want them or anybody to have – like my behavior.
2) Cash only – get off the credit card and the I’ll make this up somehow. Ever since I spent two plus years on the remodel of this house, I got used to writing out checks for enormous sums and it was always a mental stop gap to not really digest what I was doing or I would have to not do it, but plow ahead I did and I’m grateful everyday for the house and how it came together but now, given the tenor of the overall economy, my age, our plans to raise a child, it’s time to modify my living and austerity might be the new luxury.
3) More contact with friends that is not email or text messages – email and text are ways to avoid conversation, I’m convinced of this. So my resolution is to spend more quality time with my family and friends and quit trying to connect via soundbytes that often lead to more confusion than actual interaction. Gone are my social graces – I need to brush up on them.
4) Give back – I have been so blessed in my life to have so much that it is high time I started paying back to the world all that it has showered me with and I’m not talking with my pocketbook – I’m good on doling out money and supporting businesses and charities but I’m talking real time, real action, real giving. Ho, Ho, Ho.