New Year, New Start
The New Year
Have you considered making a “stop doing” list instead of your annual New Years resolutions? A “stop doing” list can help you to discipline your thoughts and actions and allocate the most precious of all resources: time.
Last year I bought my first piano and proceeded to re-learn how to play it. The most essential piece of that was making the time to practice of course. That meant I had to find the time and space to do just that.
There are times in our lives when we are forced to prioritize, re-evaluate and most important, to make different choices. A “stop doing” list can provide a framework for better decision making.
What if you approach your life as a creative work of art?
A great piece of music or art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally important, what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit — to cut out what might have already cost days or even years of effort — that distinguishes the truly exceptional artist and marks the ideal piece of work, be it a symphony, a novel, a painting, or most important of all, a life.
Consider making that “stop doing” list.
- Focus on the essential, not the important:
- The essentials are emotional; the important is rational. The essentials go on a to-die-for list; the important you put on the to-do list.
- What are you passionate about? Why not “Do it”? What is stopping you?
- Are you afraid of disappointing someone?
- What keeps you from making the necessary choices to change?
This year why not make time for your self and honor your deepest dreams. The time is NOW.
If we are to realize our intentions, what we stop doing is just as important as what we start and continue to do. Stopping = the white space. Stopping = room to run free and create from the deepest place of being without restraint or compromise. Stopping = more time for what matters most.
I know how to make things happen… Stopping, I’ve learned is the real challenge
A few tips:
- Doing less is sometimes better than doing more
- Learn to say “No”
- Cut back or “stop” a behavior that doesn’t support health
- STOP PROCRASTINATING! (my favorite)
