New Year's Resolutions, 2007...

[fajrdrako]

My 2007 New Year's Resolutions

I've greatly enjoyed composing these. It doesn't really matter if I "keep" them, the reason for the exercise is thinking about how I live and how I want to live.

1. Live a yoga lifestyle, compatible with a fannish lifestyle.

I'll have to work out what this means, since I have found that some of the values of yoga and some of the goals of being a fangirl are incompatible. For instance, what does one do when, though trying to be non-acquisitive and non-materialistic, a magazine comes out with an article on Torchwood on the cover?

2. Practise tai chi with sword.

I once took this as a class, but I've forgotten the moves. So I got a video-tape: Tai Chi: The 32 Sword Forms with Dr. Paul Lam. I plan to do this on a regular basis. Learn how to tell my left foot from my right, that's the first step.

3. Daily language study.

Not much, but if I read or write in another language for a little while each day I should be able to progress. I'd like to be able to read Latin easily again; or Esperanto; or even just French. Perhaps I will try to read all of Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis. I wonder if I could translate an episode of Torchwood into Latin.

4. Write.

I always want to write more than I do. I always feel better - about myself, about the world, about everything - when I write. Must do it more.

5. Be true to myself.

6. Discard one item per day.

I did this in 2005, and I felt magnificently decluttered. I didn't do it in 2006 and things have piled up. So! Time to do it again.

7. Do Lynne's programme with weights.

Lynne is my trainer. She has worked me out an excellent tailor-made workout with weights that I can do in my living room, Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I want to do it, and do it right. Current plan: to do hatha yoga or pilates on the mornings I am not doing Lynne's workout.

8. Develop a focussed attitude to work.

9. Be orderly.

10. To do daily: make the bed as soon as I get up; drink kombucha; floss; take pills; smile; dance.

11. Live without fear.

12. Carpe diem.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Re #1 -- let me know when you figure it out. Hinduism has some of the same values, but heck if I know how to get there from here. Or even if I want to. Then again, it does have the handy "different phases of life have different duties" get out of jail free card -- meaning, I'm in the "householder" phase where I get to procreate and be a good family person. The "sanyasi" phase come later -- that's when you start putting away these lifely things (in other words, nonattachment to people, deeds, and things). That sounds really hard to me.

Good luck with your quest to live the way you want!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

let me know when you figure it out.

Yeah, will do!

heck if I know how to get there from here

There's a certain cultural translation that I hope I can perform, if only just in my own head. Yes, it's helpful to think of it as phases... Maybe not so much a set of goals as a set of pathways which can intersect and converge as I go. Yes, non-attachment is difficult, especially when I value love - the essence of attachment.

Thanks for the good wishes. Have a good year!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

For instance, what does one do when, though trying to be non-acquisitive and non-materialistic, a magazine comes out with an article on Torchwood on the cover?

One could mention it to a friend, who would then either acquire it and lend it to one, or take if off one's hands after one is done reading it... just a thought!

6. Discard one item per day.

Yes. Making it ever harder for those at long distance to demonstrate affection... so, I'll just think very carefully before choosing any little token, right? Considering it impetus for increased creativity.

But I guess that life-size cardboard stand-up figure of Captain Jack Sparrow is out? Check.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sharing with friends is always a good idea.

Increased creativity, or any kind of creativity at all, is a good thing.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

Carpe diem - it's the most important; but it was something I couldn't realise until now, I hope it will change.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Its never too late to seize the day, of course, but it's something that seems to acquire significance with time - and it's oddly easy to feel that one's missed the chance to do it - while of course really, like the ever-present 'now', it's always with us. So - you seize your day today, and I'll seize mine!

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

So - you seize your day today, and I'll seize mine!

I will try it!