Sometimes you need to reset. Right? Am I right?
For the past several years, life has been at a constant high RPM. Either moving quickly, or standing still -and yet – the engine revs on… and on… and on. Like everyone else, life has it’s times of busyness and reprieve. I’m certainly not a ‘wear my busyness as a badge of honor’ kind of guy. I like being busy, to a point, and I like being busy *with* a point.
I have found that the 40s has brought a certain type of perspective with it. I am most assuredly more focused and intent. The busyness that historically made me feel like I was accomplishing something (and don’t get me wrong, I did accomplish a lot) became more clearly undesirable. The age-old wisdom that has hallmarked the 40s as a moniker of personal reflection is accurate. It is, in fact, a decade of introspection and value checking, and a couple values that I have been ruminating over are busyness and time.
Here’s the thing – busyness is sopping up my time.
Amongst all the cool things I’ve done, and all the cool things planned, and everything in between (including the horrible and mundane), I struggle to find that ever elusive key to the puzzle – time. My busyness, or what I’ve now come to call ‘life’, is chewing away at valuable time. Not that it’s all bad. Doing anything takes time, even things of worth. Busyness, however (a directionless allocation of time) is making worthwhile endeavors more difficult. It needs to change – and change it will.
This foray in to writing, and writing publicly, is the first of many (hopefully) mortal blows to that terrible waste of time known as busyness. I want to live the ‘smart not hard’ thing, use time wisely not flippantly. I have many items on my bucket list, writing is one of them. Trying my hand at blogging is a means to practice and cultivate the art of writing. The purpose for me is not preeminently to have my writing known, or develop some kind of cult following (and not only because that’s a pipe-dream) , but more importantly to be able to practice, get some critique, maybe discuss some cool things, and most of all, hone the art. At some point, I’d like to have the ability to write (and write well) provide my family and I a little extra money for vacations.
So, here you go, here’s to writing post #1, hopefully a start to a wise investment of time, and the death to busyness.
