Turning "someday" into today

www.sparkpeople.com/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id=388


I sometimes read the spark articles they send me *chuckles* most of the time I store them for "later" reading.  There are times I start systematically going through them and banging out the ones I want and delete the ones I do not.  I am glad I read this one.

It talks about the freedom of realizing that everything you want, everything you want to do, all the stuff you want to collect, read, paint, buy, fix or anything else you wish to do, and it’s just not going to happen.

Now this is not a negative thing its simply saying we cannot have everything we want most of the time and we simply have to come to grips with the fact that every single thing we wish to do is not always realistic and just a statement of freedom, as the article says.  It frees us from a train of thinking that never stops and the places we want to get off on keep flashing by us, it’s time to stop the train

"This is not a critique of any lack of organizational skills on your part, or a reason to give up altogether. Rather, it’s a statement of freedom."

To me this is very freeing.  I have literally a hundred books I want to read, maybe more, very possibly 150-200.  All self-help books, all books on exercise and lifestyle changes, proper diet in the sense of what we eat not a "diet"

I have art projects that have sat in the boxes for years now.  I have stuff packed in boxes I always mean to get to and organize.  I have hundreds of pieces of paper about various topics I wish to organize and put into the binders which I bought for just such a task.]

I am not a reader so most probably I will never read all those books, there is a chance I might but most probably not.  I don't make the time to sit down and read every day.  I do have something’s I read every day but it’s usually daily readers from my programs which are great and hold some pearls of wisdom but it takes only about 5 minutes to read from all 3 books.  I have the time to sit down and read at some point most days I simply do not budget my time accordingly.

So I must go through and choose the books that will most benefit my life and create a time to read them, create a plan to read them.  X amount of pages per day in order to finish the book by X.  Figure out how many books I can read a week/month/year and plan accordingly.
My papers actually have some importance as they deal with eating disorders and obesity and mindfulness, all things that are beneficial to my wellbeing and journey to a better life.

I once started to learn guitar but I lacked the ambition, drive and motivation to really learn it.  I wasn't passionate about it.

I have many things I wish to do, learn a language with Rosetta Stone, learn to computer program, create games, write fiction, start a non-profit, help create programs to offer solutions to people with eating disorders and obesity, go into schools and talk to kids about the dangers of not taking care of one’s self.

I have many things I wish to do but I have not done any of them for any consistent period of time.

I have to choose the projects that will most enrich my life and help me reach my goals.
Some of them maybe therapeutic and help me to relax and de-stress.  Some of them might be about changes my town, state, and this country needs in the battle for obesity.  Some might just be fun like publishing a book of my short stories.

Yet I work on none of these, and I keep adding more and more to the pile all the time.
So I have to decide what are just passing whims that won't enrich my life and what are things that will bring something to my life that I am lacking.

It’s a very good article and I enjoyed it, will I put it to good use? It’s hard to say really.  I must come up with a good workable plan and focus on executing it.  Time will tell
What do you want to do in your life that you are not?

**knowledge is power**