Everyone has to start somewhere. So here goes.
This experiment is borne partly out of frustration with my life as a suburbanite and partly because I truly believe that there is more I can do. Maybe that makes me an egomaniac. Lately I have been suffering a stupid degree of existential angst, and if nothing else then this blog will be an outlet for some of it. Some people go travelling, some go rock climbing at weekends to escape from their little lives. I don’t want to escape from my life, but I want to truly LIVE!!
I am a procrastinator. I reckon in the amount of time I’ve spent putting things off I could have raised six kids, set up a successful business and be enjoying my retirement by now. OK, I exaggerate, but I am really bad at this. Something I have been testing out recently is the countdown timer function on my mobile phone. It’s a bit of mental chicanery, where I can trick myself into dealing with whatever dreaded task it is that I’m putting off. Deep down, I know that the task will just prey on my mind until it gets done anyway. So I borrowed this idea from Flylady and basically all I do is set the timer for 10/15/30 mins etc, knuckle down to the task and when the beeper beeps I’m free! I’m building it up, but at least this way SOME of the job gets done as opposed to none at all.
In the same way, I figure if I can sort out some of the silly niggles of life, then I’ll be better prepared to sorting out some of the big (and I mean REALLY big) questions I am dealing with at the moment.
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