Thing One and Thing Two: Make the anxiousness go away.
On the edge of turning a major page in the birthday’s of life, I realize one thing.
There is less time.
There is less time to try new things.
When young, we can get comfortable without change.
Now that I am older, I am very uncomfortable with how little space I have left on this earth to change.
What I want to do that is new. Sounds rather Seussical.
Write a novel. G*d is hard to find time and creative energy.
Keeping studying the craft of writing.
Think more about others than myself … translation: don’t worry so much about myself.
Love more. To complete strangers I will never see again.
Be the most patient person, I can be.
Work hard and not worry about what is not being done with the laundry or the piles of clutter in the house.
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This was another exercise in Jana’s@jana’sthinkingplace Stream of Consciousness Sunday.
It’s amazing how anxious I feel after typing five uninterrupted minutes on her prompt:
What new tricks would you like to learn or have you learned?
I wish I could have peace about what I accomplish each day. Maybe then the anxiousness would go away.
What about you? What do you want to learn new?
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
- Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post (in the sidebar). .
- Link up your post below.
- Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.
I wish I would worry less about the piles of clutter in the house or laundry but those things seem to clean the cobwebs in my brain to free me up to move on to the next thing. You know what I mean. Now I don’t have to think about laundry, ok what’s for dinner? Love that Dr. Suess quote.
I, too, want to love more. And to worry less about the little things. It is so hard, though!
It seems as though I’m always anxious about something in this house – clothes, dishes, dinner (or lack of), unexpected guests …. sigh! One day I’ll come to terms with not being the modern day June Cleaver or Claire Huxtable. In the mean time, focusing on making happy memories and games out of folding the loads of laundry that finally gets washed after 2 weeks or so 🙂
I agree Michelle. Clare always seemed so relaxed with her practice and clean house. On television, perfection seems attainable (and easy).
Writing a book is on my bucket list, for sure. Talk about something that is a lot more difficult to accomplish than it looks. I applaud Kenya for doing it once already and for having a second on the way! Good luck with all the things you want to learn and do, Jamie. Life-long learning is where it’s at!
Have you thought about trying NaNoWriMo? You should check it out! Even if you don’t finish it, at least you’ll have started it! There’s lots of support there, too! 🙂
That’s a great idea Kallay. I try to write on it everyday but most of the time I peck out a few sentences while I falling asleep. The NaNoWriMo would be a great community to join up
With. I’d get more accomplished I’m sure.
I love your list!
So short yet full and lovely!
I like the patient person one. I may try this the next time someone is “taking too long” to do something.
-r