Monday
Dec312012
Simplify
Monday, December 31, 2012 
I don't remember if I told you guys (believe it or not, I don't tell you everything -- I KNOW!), but my word/motto/intention last year was "More" -- and boy, was it ever.
I'm not complaining, it was more in so many good ways, but it got to be too much. So I kinda shut down sometime in October. Eh, I'm not beating myself up about it or anything, it's just the way the year turned out.
I wanted more and I got it. And then I realized that I didn't want quite so much.
So this year, the word that keeps coming to mind is Simplify.
I like it.
I'll be simplifying things this year -- in all aspects of my life -- and I couldn't be more excited about it. I'm not sure how much of that will affect you, but it will certainly affect me and my family, all for the better, I hope. I want to be relaxed and more focused, and I simply can't do it when I have a crazy to-do list hanging over me.
Simple.
I'm fighting the urge to make a grand complex plan to simplify my life because, hello irony, so I'll just leave it at if it's complicated and can be done in a simpler way, that's the way I'll do it.
It's as simple as that.
Reader Comments (4)
I so feel you. My soul has been screaming for me to simplify, but at the same time keep going with what's been built. Not an easy task, for sure. I guess the key here is to learn to ask more and not feel we must do it all.
My word for 2013? Reconnect.
Must reconnect with the real me.
Thanks for making me think about my word for 2013 and putting it out there!
I smiled when I read about your "complex plan for simplifying." I was just going thru my notebooks from this year and there are all these lists and "systems" and plans for spending 15 mins per day on this and 3x week for that...and none of it worked for me. I just DON'T do well will a strict system unless it involves other people (a class, a workplace). Good luck as you make room for great things!
The amount of time I spent reading articles on "simplifying" things is embarrassing.
Thank you -- and I hope we get to reconnect in person plenty of times in 2013!