Life is more beautiful than this.
Maybe the lack of richness in everyday living makes life harder to do. I feared getting to this point on my journey of simplification. At the end of perfectly organized drawers is the realization I’m not living the life I need.
Life's conveniences have replaced rich interactions. Every day I can peer into any topic or aspiration through a screen, but peering into my friends, family or community is more challenging. Nourishing my relationships is hard when the last thing I want to do is be on the phone. Video chatting, calls, texts, just get the whole phone away from me.
I want pheromones, skin, vocal tones, nonverbal body language.
I have to be intentional about making sure I don't spend most of my time with a laptop, laundry and the miscellaneous possessions of others. This means fighting the urge to spend my free time recovering from my doing time.
Why is life draining when my world is filled with endless conveniences?
Maybe the lack of richness in everyday living makes life harder to do. I feared getting to this point on my journey of simplification. At the end of perfectly organized drawers is the realization I’m not living the life I need.
Life is more beautiful than this.
My relationships used to be deeper. Now my interactions feel like touchpoints, a high five until we see one another on the next lap around.
It would be nice if conveniences added to life’s richness.
I share this with you because, you may not know the by-product of getting organized and simplifying life is clarity.
Once you see your truth you can’t unsee it. The clarity I continue to find is about myself and how I'm meant to live. I always feared this day would come, the day I'm unable to avoid my actual needs and desires. I now must let go of my fears, insecurities, limitations, and decide what belongs. Are you on this journey with me?
Are you ready for clarity?
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Maintaining the Internal
strength is internal
In the future, it’s the many parts of our internal selves that keeps us thriving.
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Being free from the everyday roles and responsibilities has been an experience one hasn’t felt in a long time.
Not having to go anywhere. Not having to do anything.
All of a sudden the pressure is off. There’s a general consensus that says everyone RELAX.
Relax until this passes.
And it shall. But where will we be? The same place we started?
Where will we be?
Some are using this opportunity to do just that. Get a jump start on where we’ve been.
Others don’t trust the moment and are working even harder to keep momentum.
While others are preparing for a shift in the practical and internal sense.
Most of what seems to be going on is internal.
It’s the only thing one can maintain in this world.
Spending more time maintaining how I feel internally and less time on the practical is giving me the kind of [rest]oration I didn’t know I needed.
A rest from over-doing in areas of life that don’t need my attention. A rest from being many things for many people all the time.
What to pay attention to?
The mental space I find myself in each day needs my attention.
My home needs my attention.
My life needs my attention.
When everything in the physical world ceases to be important, a sudden shift of what is important comes into view.
The key is holding on to this perspective as things slowly creep their way back into our lives. Creating a life of useless clutter.
A life filled with a bunch of things that don’t matter all because it looks like it does.
This feels like a rare opportunity that the world stops long enough to ask ourselves,
‘Is what I’m doing with my life what I want to be doing with it?”
Not just I a professional sense. In all of it.
What now?
There’s a temptation to stay on the train we’ve been riding for so long. Because if you don’t, you could be left behind.
Right now, the train is going so slow you can get off, go look around, take a walk to come back and see the train has barely moved.
We’ve picked up things along the journey that reflects where we’ve been, what we’ve seen, and who we’ve become.
Some of the things were not ours to have but we held it for someone we loved.
Some things we were born with and never noticed it until now.
A lot of things society and culture gave us automatically.
Moving forward,
may your life be a reflection of what you choose to carry and not what you’ve been given.
Feel free.
Come out of isolation better than you went in with daily scheduling #ready4rona
Day 1 | LOST IN THE SAUCE
Emotional, confused about the information being spread. What to do next? What to do with my investments? What to do about work? Where should the kids go? How should we spend the day? Do I have everything we need? Scroll, scroll. Think. Feel defeated. See what everyone else is doing.
Breathe.
Hear a voice within. Gain back control of your life.
Day 2 | FRESH PERSPECTIVE
What do I want from this time?
How could I use this time for my benefit?
How can I adapt and evolve during this time?
What do I have control of?
My time.
I’m not here to tell you how to use your time. I’m hear to tell you to decide for yourself how you want to use your time.
I made a list of how I want to use mine:
fasting, eating healthy, doing what I’m passionate about, time with family, reading, sleeping, creating, connecting, loving, learning something new
It’s much easier to oversleep or binge watch videos [ on any platform ] than to do the things mentioned. Simply because it’s easier to escape than to be intentional. That’s why I’m doing a few things to support my intentions.
A daily schedule when self-isolated
I made a daily schedule to use this time of self- isolation and quarantine to come out better than I went in.
