Wow. 2006.
Published by timbomb January 9th, 2007 in MiscellaneousThose last couple of months seemed madly busy. It’s such a grace to have the time each year to just run away for a couple of weeks over Christmas.
I’ve come back to just as long a ToDo list as I left, but with some determination to improve my praxis in a few ways:
Make more time for my practice, particularly physical and spiritual practice since that’s what slips easiest when I get busy. I’m thinking about trying to make the mornings a sacred time where I do this stuff, but it feels like I need some prayer or meditation in the evening as well.
Less teaching. I taught in two subjects at UTS last semester and that basically excluded doing anything else. I love teaching, but it’s not where I’m best focussed right now.
Make time to get clearer on What I’m Doing. I’m so used to just doing what’s needed that I don’t have a habit of getting strategic about where to put my energy. Last year was fun, but my workload is getting a little mad. I seem to have too many mailing lists, too many blog feeds, too many email conversations going to do any of it with any depth or effectiveness.
Less stuffing around. I came to Sydney 6.5 years ago with a personal mission to work out why I felt like I was procrastinating so much of the time. I think things are a lot better, but I’ve also gotten more sensitive about what needs doing and every second I’m watching junk on TV, randomly cruising the web, eating crap food, I’m squandering this incarnation.
Hmm. Second week in January and I’m making lists. These aren’t New Year’s Resolutions, it’s not like I’m deciding this stuff, it’s more like I’m recording felt shifts in my bodymind - my self is heading in this direction, so I thought maybe I ought to write it down.
Happy New Year, my beloved friends. Let’s all make the best of it.
Words can have a lot of impact on how we view our own activities. What is wrong with “wasting the time away” or “squandering this incarnation” as you put it? Maybe we should call it enjoying life, watching the world go by.
Yeah, achievements are good, but even what most people call “achievements” is so temporary, so transient, the only thing that makes it worth it is the fun while doing it (and it better be fun) and of course the bragging rights over coffee/beer! If one more person tells me that their biggest achievement is their children, I might have to remind them that monkeys have been doing it for thousands of years and breeding is not much of an achievement.
I agree with diving deep into a project. The energy, the flow experience when you are captured by the project is life!
just What Are You Doing, Tim?
mr timbomb, your industry needs you to keep tickling the bright minds of those who will influence the future - noooo! don’t stop teaching!
Don’t worry, JB. I’m not leaving altogether, but two classes was too much.