For a long time I thought I had my shit together. But it turns out I’m still carrying all sorts of baggage around, and I hadn’t yet taken the time to sort my shit out, if you’ll pardon my French. Instead, I was avoiding. I was keeping myself busy. I was pretending. It’s time for change. That change starts today.
That’s not to say I’m unhappy. Far from it! But I’ve taken a step back from a lot of things in order for me to be able to concentrate on making myself whole again. I’ve got a lot of work to do. I’ve narrowed down my goals into three tangible, attainable targets. I intend to improve:
- My career prospects
- My relationship with my daughter
- My health
To that end, I’m working to eliminate distractions and stressful, unhappy situations from my life so that I can concentrate on the three targets above. And I’m making lists. Have I ever mentioned how much I love making lists?
So, here are my lists. By sharing them with you, I hold myself more accountable. I’ll touch base and update on progress, and you can ask how I’m doing, too!
Career Prospects/Work and Community Involvement
- March with my brothers and sisters in the Evict Rob Ford rally tomorrow.
- Attend NDP Leader’s Levee Saturday night in a pretty black dress. Hand out business cards. Make contacts. Look for opportunities. Enjoy spending time with like-minded folk who have like-minded goals.
- Run for the position of Secretary on the executive of my union’s area council.
- Find someone to nominate me as a delegate to our regional Labour Council.
- Bug my manager to (finally!) implement the career development portion of my most recent performance evaluation.
- Join some committees and working groups. It’ll look good on my resume.
- Volunteer at a soup kitchen. It’ll feel good in my heart.
Relationship with Gwen Junior
- Start a Saturday afternoon hot yoga routine at Moksha Yoga Uptown (only seven dollars!).
- Hire a math tutor – sit with them and help.
- Write a weekly letter to her, and encourage her to do the same.
- Try to weasel my way back onto her Facebook hahaha
- Teach her to cook.
My Health
- Aforementioned weekly hot yoga.
- Buy a pair of ice skates – skate for free Friday nights.
- Check out the lane swimming up the street once a week.
- Stop eating such bullshit! Like, seriously!
- My friend Mitchell (you like what I did there, M?) just sent me this brown rice detox thing – maybe I’ll try that.
- Get a solid eight hours sleep.
- Drink more water!
