Sunday, January 28, 2007

What are the main aspects

So what is life? What are all the broad descriptives that describe the various aspects of life?
You've got your health under which comes, physical, spiritual, emotional.
Finance; Career, spending, saving, planning, managing
Relationships; Family, friends, intimate

What else?
ahhh Creativity or does that come under spiritual health. Lets assume it does, so you've got your three main aspects of life under which fall categories that flush out the details a little further.
Life can be like a big org chart or for our purposes a work plan.
In essence Health is like one big category you have financial, emotional, spiritual and physical health. To take all that on at once is too huge but if you broke them all down and chose one thing at a time to work on you could achieve your goals. This year i want to work on my physical health but even that is huge. There is level of fitness, eating habits, bad habits like smoking. What about stress that effects physical health. Stress is caused often by the other health categories, unhealthy finances or relationships can cause extreme stress which lead to physical health problems. So maybe one needs to deal with some of that as well. But you have to start somewhere and I have two smaller goals that fall under health to work on over the next three months...and beyond of course because this is a lifestyle change. So I pick fitness and smoking. I believe that I can't effectively improve my health if I smoke and I can't effectively deal with stress unless I become physically active. Both of these smaller goals will impact the next steps I take in a life improvement plan that will last for years I expect. It's all about incorporating new and healthier habits into my life. My quit smoking date is Feb 19th. My goal for fitness is 3-4 times a week classes at the gym working up to six days a week alternating cardio, weights and classes. in three months I want to be smoke free and wearing a size 9 . Those are goals that are achievable

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Life is a project

Today was the first day of a three day project management course I am taking through work. The homework looked daunting, so daunting in fact that I thought I was in over my head.
I planned to spend last weekend doing my daunting homework but instead spent it in my jammy's relaxing and napping. A rather boring weekend but a nice one. So yesterday morning I set about doing the homework that was due at noon. My Mom will laugh at this as I always do my homework this way. Last minute and in a panic. Worried that I am not getting it right and not really leaving myself enough time to make sure I'm doing it right. And as always I ended up doing it exactly right and it wasn't really that hard.
The homework was choose a project you are wanting to initiate, have already initiated or one you have worked on in the past. Identify the project and do a one page summary answering the following questions.
What is the current situation?
What are the desired outcomes?
How will you reach the desired outcomes?
That combined with the project management website we were to be come familiar with felt so out of my realm. Until i sat down to do it. It was easy and it was clear and it helped me to put the project into perspective. I loved it.
Today I realized I could apply that to my life as a whole and break it down into mini projects.

What is my current life situation? (The current realities)
What does my desired life look like? (What do I want)
How will I move from this reality to what i want? (The plan)

Monday, January 01, 2007

Ever changing life

I realized today that I don't know who I am. I've spent so many years identifying with my job and my role as a mother that now I don't know what I'm about. The job is still there and I will continue to advance and grow in that but with one child having graduated and moved on and the other having gone crazy and moved on I don't know what to do with myself. I find myself focusing all my non job related energy on my relationship. Noticing and obsessing on every nuance. Every missed phone call, every happy moment, every un said thought. It's not healthy and it's because I haven't filled the gap.
Knowing now that the gap must be filled I have no idea what I want to fill it with. I don't know who I am any more.
My mother warned me about this.
It's like a pre midlife crisis. It sucks.
It is a new year one filled with possibilities. I am my own woman again I just have to figure out what that looks like and I'll be fine.
I hope