One of my
New Year’s resolutions will be to stop procrastinating and putting things off
to the last minute — I guess that’s the reason I’m not waiting to the last week
of the year to write this.
I look back
and wonder what I’ve accomplished this year. I haven’t written nearly as much
FICTION as I wanted to, but I have increased my NON-fiction business and,
almost sadly, I make more money at that so… Since it’s fiction that I want to
write, am I selling myself out? Or like many others who can’t survive on their
books alone, am I just working towards paying bills and just lucky that my “daytime
job” is also writing. It’s a hard decision to decide priorities when one is
your dream and the other is your mortgage.
Hubby and I
want to get our house in order as we are nearing retirement years and want the opportunity
to actually consider the proverbial downsizing. Somehow my closets seem to have
some kind of fertilizer though and every time I THINK I’ve pared one down, it just
seems to still overflow! And after 35-years in this house and my impossible
sentimentality, it is just plain hard to go through draws and files deciding
what to actually keep and toss. Besides this is a house that raised a family so
the memories have a way of grasping and nearly paralyzing my physical being, …so
hard to get things done.
Time! Every
day seems shorter and shorter, and I am not just talking about the approach
(actually today) of the winter solstice. It’s so difficult to believe that each
day has the same 24-hours it always has (give or take the actual few minutes).
I remember a time when I actually had time to do things like my work, my
dishes, and most importantly stay in touch with people I care about. I feel as
if I’m busy, busy, busy and yet a look back and it doesn’t seem that I’ve
gotten much accomplished at all. Sometimes I worry that life is rushing by and I am missing out.
A couple of
years ago I began an exercise program, but thanks to real health issues (yes,
yes, confirm it with my doctor!) I’ve slacked off somewhat and can’t seem to
literally get back on track. Mentally I feel about half my age which was a time
I had ENERGY, lol. Somehow the energy has retired before I’ve reached that age
myself. Our bodies change as we get older, everyone tells me that, so shouldn’t
it stand to reason that it feels fresh and renewed once in a while? Instead I
wake up with the same, and a few more, problems I had when I went to sleep.
I do look
back at the past year and I’ve had a lot of precious moments and I am busy
trying to save mementoes in the most compact manner possible in keeping with
the downsizing desire. I’ve spent time with family but it’s never as much time
as I want. And I have made a habit of saying nightly prayers and most
importantly being thankful for my many blessings; that’s something that does
make me feel good.
I think
after all the looking back I tend to do at this time of year I can make a one
word resolution for 2016 —
TIME
· 2016 is the year I will work on time management
· 2016 is the year I will make time for family and friends
· 2016 is the year I will remember all of the good times
· 2016 will be the year I make time to think before speaking
· 2016 will be the year I make MORE time to write my fiction
· 2016 is the year I will look forward in time and not dwell on the
past
· 2016 is the year I will make time to take care of myself so that I
can be here to give time to my family
· 2016 will be the year that I won’t take anything for granted and I
will take the time to say Thank You to everyone in my life
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