I read back through my blog often. I like to see my creative moments, and my thoughtfulness, see where my mind has gone. It looks like a lot of this was written recently, however a lot of it was poetry I wrote, compiled from a few different sources, combined here.
There are two posts I often read over and over again, but the one I'm interested in sharing, or re-sharing is this one because to me its really powerful.
"If I could do anything before I die, it would help people realize their own potential, that they are wonderful, that they are unique and special, that nothing in their pasts their present or their future should ever make them feel less than amazing. Less than what they are, because we are ALL capable of being amazing! We are ALL amazing."
It reminds me that we're all on our own path to finding something, and with teaching yoga, I think that I can achieve the above quote. I want to help people, help them find inner peace, love, acceptance, health, joy. I want to listen to their experiences, and share in their pain, make friends, and help people move on. Yoga is a nurturing, loving experience if you let it be. Most just take it for it's health benefits, but it's so much more.
As I end this year 2010, and move into 2011 with a new focus and new goals for life, I invite you to share with me your goals for 2011. I don't want to call them resolutions, because for most of us, its something we spew out and forget about. Instead, tell me some goals for 2011.
I have a few more since I wrote my last list.
My goals for 2011 are:
Take 4 dance classes.
Take the yogi training course.
Start looking into opening a yoga studio, one that caters to the low income families. I don't think that yoga (because its such a huge practice) is doing enough to help everyone. 12-20 bucks for drop in is crazy to me.
Lose 5-30 lbs (i'll be realistic)
Swim/work out 5 days a week.
Take 4 dance classes.
Take the yogi training course.
Start looking into opening a yoga studio, one that caters to the low income families. I don't think that yoga (because its such a huge practice) is doing enough to help everyone. 12-20 bucks for drop in is crazy to me.
Lose 5-30 lbs (i'll be realistic)
Swim/work out 5 days a week.
The additions at this time would be
Look into Buddhism and spirituality, and see how they fit into my life
Read more, Compute less.
Revert back into a vegan lifestyle.
Take more vitamins!
Goals. Easily attained. Short term, long term, ideas, anything - Share them with me here!
Most of you who are reading this, are able to even leave them as anonymous lists - you can check back on them, without fearing that anyone else knows what you have planned!
So do it. Share with me your Goals for 2011.
Namaste.
Ok so you've inspired me to wonder about what I have actually committed to in my life, and the list is pathetically short!
ReplyDelete1. I've committed to a couple of my jobs wholeheartedly, but sadly they always seem to end.
2. I'm completely committed to my man, something I'm proud of since we are so far apart.
3. I'm committed to my kids, but I'm starting to think its not wholeheartedly :/
So that's it. sad hey? Now I'm thinking about what I want to do with my life and here it is...
1. Get healthy...not just lose weight but REALLY healthy.
2. Be a mom who is really there for my kids, not zoning out when they talk, or yelling all the time because they don't get things done, but one who is involved not only physically but emotionally.
3. I'm sick of being poor. I am going to use my taxes to straighten my life out and live frugally after that, like I should have done all this year.
4. Move. I'm done with this place and the heartache my kids go through here, so wherever our path is cleared is where I will go whether I'm afraid of it or not.
5. Actively explore my spirituality, whatever that may be. I will search with an open mind, and accept whatever answers come my way despite what social strings may be attached to what I find.
I may even be inspired to write more :) and maybe 6 will be getting a vegetarian yoga wife from Canada, living in our zen home with 3 yogalets. ;)
Namaste, I honor the light inside you <3
My goals are pretty simple.
ReplyDelete1. I want to be more focused on conscious thought. I've made a habit out of mental complacency. Simple things get overlooked, things that should be common sense. So my goal is to train myself to think things through fully.
2. Read more. I want to train my brain. I want to learn about different topics and generally gain more fact based intelligence.
3. Get down to a weight of 260 lbs. The benefits of the gym have been purely amazing. I've lost 40 plus lbs so far. I want to treat my body as a temple. I want to feel like I did when I played sports. Like a well oiled machine. Push myself to be stronger, faster, better and setting challenges for myself.
4. Gain more emotional intelligence. Find my trigger points, figure out how and why I am feeling how I am and learn to correct the behaviour to learn from it.
5. Live in the present.
6. Succeed at my job promotion and learn from it to gain more skills in life.
This is shaping up to be a very positive year. I look forward to it's challenges, to the victories and defeats. I finally feel I am no longer stuck. I have options, I have hope, I'm not so tied down by finances. Optimism ftw.
i want to find some purpose this year. i know that sounds like a cop-out, my goal is to have a goal, but i have so many things i want to do and i don't want to choose and have to ignore the rest. i'm so unhappy with my life right now and i want to find a way to spend my time and talent on things that inspire me and bring me peace. i want to find a way to do for a living what i currently do for the sake of my sanity: knitting, painting, cooking, gardening, sewing, prayer and meditation, dance, reading, writing. i'd settle for making even one of the above my full time job. anything that didn't feel like it was raping my soul every single day. even if it wasn't my dream job, i just want something that resembles me and an idea of where i want to go.
ReplyDelete*spiritussancto
ReplyDeleteI wish I was closer now. You and I have far more in common than I originally thought 4 or so years ago when we first met!!! We're quite a like :)
Your confusion is where I was two years ago, and I spent the better portion of it learning everything I could about so many different things to get... well, more educated. Thats it, just to learn for learnings sake :)
You'll figure it out!!