I celebrate three new years: the Gregorian, the lunar, and my birth one. This book started being written years ago (on this platform) so it spans some time, and of course, many new years. With all these new years to observe I can sometimes get turned around with where I am in the course of any one of them…and what I find is that (perhaps more naturally) I gravitate to the seasonal year to keep me on some sort of organized track, but even this gets tangled up in the more productive Q1,2,3,4 approach.
I do appreciate and have, as of late, been utilizing the quarterly organization system for the intentional work and word of the year processing that keeps not only my AuDHD in check, but is PROOF that (because I write every week in my self planner no longer being made, but I just recently purchased a couple extra from these fine folks because I fully intend to dismantle it and make my own by copying the pages) that I do the things I want to and say I’m going to do, even with all the distractions, upheaval, and unknowns all around me.
Do I love all these things?
Of course not. Is loving everything *really* about loving everything? Every thing?
What is a thing anyway? Of course there are many definitions, but for what I’m referring to in this entry (and for my work of “distilling” in this first quarter of the Gregorian year), the things are literally the things that are taking up physical space around me, that either bring me joy, make my life better, or that require some effort to maintain (and that may or may not bring me joy).
My word/work of last year was “release” and each quarter I focused on something specific to let go of (the first quarter was things), and I’ve decided that with “distill” as this years focus I am cycling through the same work each quarter to look at what was left after I released what I could last year (because in some ways there still seems to be so much remaining)…is it so that I can love, truly, everything or just what everything means to me?
Today I will love everything that presents itself to me to the degree that I can, for we do not need to love everything equally – but we can indeed love everything. What does everything mean to you? Give yourself some time to consider this as you move through your day. If you get overwhelmed, ask yourself if what’s most important to you really is your “everything” and then keep that at the front of your heartmind moving forward.
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