Does anyone still celebrate May Day, or is it another forgotten holiday?
Whether you celebrate today as a holiday or not, it’s a great day to re-commit to your goals, plans, and dreams. It’s so easy to get caught up in the stress of day-to-day living and leave our dreams by the wayside while we work to survive. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
I’ve been working my way through Bob and Melinda Blanchard’s Changing Your Course: The 5-Step Guide to Getting the Life You Want, and after only the first step it was obvious how badly my life needs changing. I failed the passion test, and the environment test that are key parts of the first step so I know that I need big-time help if I’m going to make it to Nova Scotia by my birthday this year.
This isn’t going to be a review post because I’m only halfway through the book so far. (That’s not to say that I don’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone who’s thinking about making changes or facing changes.) I’m taking my time digesting everything, doing all the exercises, taking all the tests because a) I want to do this right and be successful at it; and b) because I promised Luciano at Litemind.com a copy of my mind map when I’m done. So in addition to doing all the work, I’m also documenting all my processes as I go.
One of the things that this book has done for me already is rekindled my desire to write. Not that the desire hasn’t always been there smoldering under the surface, but there certainly hasn’t been a lot of motivation to actual participate in the physical acts of sitting the butt in the chair and picking up the pen. This blog is a good example — a month between posts is pretty unacceptable, even in my books. But since my slide into apathy began, I haven’t written anything much longer than a grocery list.
So in the spirit of living what I love (or at least taking steps in that direction), today I am re-committing myself to achieving the goal of moving to Nova Scotia by my birthday. I’m also making a commitment to myself to write something more than a grocery list every day.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and today is the first day of the rest of my life. Happy May Day indeed. 