When to Start...

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 I thought of restarting this blog from the new year. But then I planned so many things for the new year that it was just overwhelming. Does it happen with you? 

As the year starts approaching December my brain starts thinking about all the things that I wanted to do and didn’t get a chance to do it. So as a custom my brain did exactly that in first week of December. This time I wanted to be a little smart or act smart so I made a digital list of all the things I wanted to do but didn't do, I want to do in 2022 and things that have always been on my mind to do. Obviously the list was long and I was over enthusiastic 🙂. I didn’t want to leave anything for any other year. This is THE year or MY year …. This is what I was feeling. 

Come January 1st and everything was just so perfect. I was trying hard to do it all. And feeling happy and exhausted. By 10th of January all of it felt so exhausting that all collapsed. I had seen so many videos about planning and setting routines and organizing. I had read so much about how to get this done and that done. I had spend so many evenings thinking and planning and writing it down. But I had completely forgotten to plan a slow down. And so I crashed. I am sure all those youtubers and blog writers who seem to have mastered the art of planning and adding things to your existing routines must have gone through this phase as well. 

I have to admit this is not the first time that I have crash landed, I have been there many times. But this time I gave it a good thought. What I was trying to do was add too many things in my day/week that it was just too overwhelming. So this time, instead of giving up, I thought of doing things slowly and taking up one thing at a time. Not putting a lot of pressure on myself. 

Any day can be the first day of starting something new. I need not wait for the right date on the calendar to start something that I love doing. 

And I am starting something new today.

Comments

  1. M AFebruary 7, 2022 at 11:27 AM

    Wonderful!
    Its not important how many times you fall but how many times you rise - Nelson Mandela

    I believe, we dream of doing things only when we know deep inside that we CAN do them. Now how much we want to do them and how much we accomplish ... so many variables. So.. persist. Sooner/ later/ just progress. And enjoy the ride.

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  2. M AFebruary 7, 2022 at 11:27 AM

    Good to see you write again.

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