From mid-November until January 2, we can all get too busy–“caught up” in the holiday plotting, planning, hosting and attending during that potentially hectic six weeks. I’ve had a rich and wonderful five weeks of family events and such as well as a host of task-driven activities that have kept me hopping. Plenty of family members, friends and strangers in check-out lines have expressed the same thing: the holidays can be crammed with turbo-charged activity and leave you feeling a little “wrung out.”
I’m focused on making time for me during this last few days before 2011. For instance, I’m gathering and reading old journals to affirm some old dreams and consider some new ones. As some of you already know, Oprah Winfrey is launching her own network, OWN, at noon on January 1, and I read in her magazine last month that the seed of the idea for her own network was planted in an old journal she’d kept in 1992. She shared in the essay that she’d been discussing how to shape the direction of her career in new and interesting ways and the idea of launching her own network came up. She wrote about the discussion in that journal and continued to be watchful for glimmers of potential in opportunities that crossed her desk or engaged her in conversation.
I’ve kept a journal for years and expect a review to really light my path, affirming some truths about myself and the world that will strengthen me and make me smile and revealing some dreams that I’d still like to realize.
Does anything like this sound like something that would help you, too? Let’s agree to focus some SLOW-charged activity on dream-making!
Love y’all,
Doctor Mell
