Beth gave me a wonderful compliment yesterday.
“I am very intentional about it. You know, like how you do things.”
I’m so utterly flattered by this comment. 2010 is my year for being intentional, but it was a silent resolution and I didn’t think anyone would notice! This year I am striving to be aware, present, and deliberate in how I create my life; set up systems and habits that can carry me forward to my more ambitious goals. Not reaching for anything lofty quite yet, but carving a very firm foundation that my later years can rest on. If I choose, (as I do!) to live my life fully, with zesty, juicy, heady experiences, masses of adventure and growth, I need this time to set up key areas that can help me stretch, and grow, and enlarge. Without toppling over.
Of course I have many goals, dreams, and plans, but that is always the case and certainly nothing new. What I want now is a set of habits that are automatic, self sustainable, and entertaining, while also pushing me inevitably in the direction I want to go.
Maybe it’s the result of too many self-help books when I was younger (no such thing!), but it is so important to me that I live my life deliberately, with clear awareness of what I’m trying to accomplish. I have business goals, and life goals, and all of that, but the one overarching is that I want to be excellent. In art, in music, in business, in stamina, in discipline, in life. I don’t care so much what I accomplish in my life, but I care very much who I am while I am living it.
Kaizen. Polish the mirror.
