Now
So What Am I Doing Now?
23 December 2024
I am focusing on 4 things:
- Seeking reality in everything I experience and discover.
- Improving my physical and mental fitness.
- Searching for what I want to do for a living next.
- Subtracting
The first item is one that has changed, and continues to change, my life!
The second bullet relies on awareness.
The physical exercise that we used to get in the course of our daily lives has been greatly reduced by modern work. The constant bombardment of our senses with all kinds of useless information, along with the attempts at manipulating our feelings and thoughts, are detrimental to our minds, for a mind constantly flooded with this is a mind that cannot think deeply about anything. It cannot discern good from bad.
I am embedding more workouts in my day, for it is good for my body and mind. I'm also using awareness to dissect the constant streams of "information" and reduce or eliminate any source that I can.
The third bullet looks to the future.
I am still looking at options for earning a living. It's looking less likely that I will remain on my current job. Why? It is a different "me" that is there, and that "me" is much more open to new thoughts and willing to try to understand them; while I work among many people who insist that the way we do things is the way that we've always done them. That attitude seems to be, if anything, more entrenched than I've ever seen it - but perhaps that is because I've been developing eyes to see it! Where this is leading, I'm still not sure. I do know that change is constantly happening in my life and am enjoying the ride.
The fourth bullet is a part of the first three.
I have been looking at my life and Subtracting things. My goals were long-delayed because I kept adding things without stopping to think about them, what they are, and what - if anything - they really mean to me. Check out the post To Move Forward, Subtract for some of my earlier thinking on the subject.
Subtracting, and getting back to the idea that I need to focus on one thing at a time, is leading me to do a lot of cleanup in life.
I've been going through piles and piles of stuff and ideas. I'm getting rid of a lot of them, for I realize now that having saved these for "Maybe some day?" only clutters up life and hampers the person collecting them.
I have cut all of things I was trying to learn down to just one thing. Why? Because trying to do too many things meant I had no pleasure in doing any of them! That one thing is music.
I am taking music lessons and learning music theory. In my youth, I took many hours of music lessons - but never once did anyone teach me how to create music. It is a new, very enjoyable experience and I'm having a great time with it!
Perhaps this winter I will also find the time to continue my interest in amateur radio - or perhaps not. It will depend on what else I subtract in order to add this in.