For several days, I've been working on a post about awareness. I've had several moments of clarity about how the quality of my awareness creates the quality of my life experience. But this is not the post about awareness.
Well, in a way it is. I became aware this weekend that, over the past two to three months, I had allowed my focus and organization of things to unravel too far. Though I have a couple of things I particularly need to do - one is taxes for 2013 and the other is composing for an upcoming concert - I needed more to spend several hours this afternoon reviewing, ridding, and reorganizing the portfolio of things that I carry around.
These vary from work tasks, to yoga notes and ideas about teaching, to medical and financial paperwork I'm handling for Dad, to planning for coming trips, things I'm saving to read when I have more focused time, and more. They are things I'm interested in, or feel obligated to do, and each of them represents an intention to spend some amount of future time to read, make a phone call, send an email, or take some other action to either resolve an issue or plan in more detail.
To some degree, this dufflebag full of odds and ends is my future. It is what I will be paying attention to, and how I will be spending my time. If I want a rich life of meaningful relationships and experiences, what I choose to put in the dufflebag is really important.
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