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New Year’s Intentions

I haven’t done a New Year’s Resolutions post yet because I don’t have any firm resolutions this year. Instead I have a vague vision of living more intentionally, being more aware of what I’m doing from day to day and making more time for self-care.

To that end, I bought a cheap “2020 agenda” notebook to record things like exercise and nutrition, my charity donation goals, and shopping habits. I don’t think I’m particularly bad at any of these things, but it’s been a long time since I took a really detailed look at how well my routines are working.

Mostly, though, I want to schedule more time for self-care.

If you look at lifestyle blogs, self-care usually looks like bubble baths and shopping sprees. For me it’s about reading without constant interruptions, doing craft projects, learning new things (lately I’m practicing Latin with Duolingo),  and long conversations over good food. I’ve been really burned out the last few months with parenting, so this year I’m making recharge time a priority. I think it will help all of our stress levels.

The older I get, the less clear and simple my resolutions are. I still have goals, or a vision for my life, and the older I get the harder it is to describe. The vision is pretty clear to me, but it’s made up of so many threads of experience and intuition that it’s hard to explain to everyone else. The closest I can come is an unholy alliance of modern slow living, historical simplicity and manners, and goth punk DIY rebellion.

I told you it’s hard to explain. But if I ever figure out how to express my vision well enough, it would make a hell of a lifestyle guide. I kind of wish someone would reach into my head and write the “Goth Guide to Simplicity” for me so I don’t have to. Hopefully that’s someone else’s New Year’s resolution this year.

 

3 responses to “New Year’s Intentions”

  1. Baby butterflies and coffee Avatar
    Baby butterflies and coffee

    I noticed that the older I get, the less resolutions I make. This year I haven’t actually made any. I only want to be kinder and a better person, I want to have time to read all the books I want and maybe get better at saving money but otherwise…. I have a vision of my life and my main goal is my daughter

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    1. Corvus Chaos Avatar
      Corvus Chaos

      That’s lovely.
      As my kids enter the teen years our family vision is changing day by day. Sometimes it’s tough on all of us, and sometimes I see little glimpses of the adults they’ll become and it’s really exciting.

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  2. Donnalee of Kingston NY Avatar
    Donnalee of Kingston NY

    Those all sound great–I love your goal sentence. I ‘m glad you have duolingo–in the old days, we learned Latin and other languages in high school and college only, and ‘language labs’ were rare sessions of the course to get to listen to the tapes the school owned. There were none for Latin or classical Greek either, just the modern languages.

    I write down all I eat and all I drink, especially since consuming enough water is a real health issue for me. Dreams also get written down (and the 15 cornucopia days for Kingdon of Loathing, which I still play online since it’s so basic and has no real moving parts.)

    Good luck with it all. I am supposed to finish writing my own book, on my view of tarot having been dead three times and working with tons of old-fashioned multiple/folks with DID, but it ain’t happening just yet–good luck with yours.

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