Turtles-Paradise

There are so many things I want to do.

Good things, fun things, exciting things. There’s about ten businesses I want to run, a hundred-odd charities I want to be involved with, a thousand hobbies I want to start, or re-start. I want to learn a language, learn to dance, learn a martial art. I want to be this, or that, or something else.

Picking one thing to focus on is hard. I’m the sort of person who gets very excited when starting new things, or visiting new places. I want to fill my days back-to-back with everything there is to see and do.

The result? Unsurprisingly, it is a myriad of half-finished things, and a number of things I’m competent at, but not skilled.

My biggest challenge is to simplify. Not to cut out the boring stuff – I enjoy 99% of my life. But to focus on one or two things, and not let myself be distracted by the next shiny toy.

I could list everything I wanted to do, and it would fill up an entire book. But these are the things I am going to focus on instead:

• My job. My 37 hour a week, conventional job. I enjoy it, and it has purpose.
• My husband and friends.
• Yoga. I love yoga, and it never fails to make me feel better. I am foregoing all my other brief affairs with other exercises in order to focus on yoga.
• My blog. I love writing, it is my passion.
• Food and gardening. I include these together, as I grow to cook, and cook what I grow.

These are my first loves, and the ones I have always returned to. I want to shape my life around them, instead of trying to fit them around the flavour of the month.