Looking for inspiration for the New Year, I trawled the blogosphere to find my motivation.
From Kate at Kate takes 5 came the idea of a word to anchor you and remind you of your direction for the year. My word for 2015 is Discipline.
We are going to bed too late, I am spending too much time online, I am not preparing lessons well enough in advance, housework is sporadic....
I've never been very self disciplined but some times are better than others. This year has been particularly sluggish with more than the usual amount of procrastination.
There is a quote: How you spend your days is how you spend your life. (Attributed to American author, Annie Dillard but I don't know if she said it first.)
My life is in danger of being lived almost entirely on fb and The DM Online. So no specific resolutions this year, just an overall discipline applied to each day.
I've also been following Jack Black on Mortgage Free in Three. His directive is to write down 30 goals in a short amount of time - without thinking too much about it, letting your subconscious in on the act, and not restricting yourself to what you perceive to be manageable. Then chunk these down to seven goals to concentrate on. He gives tasks that help imprint your goals onto your brain so that you are always working towards them even if you don't realize it. There is a bit of 'letting the universe take care of it' voodoo involved but I actually believe in what my friends Liska (New Mum Online) and Aviva Belfer call cosmic ordering. It usually delivers quite reliably in my experience. And Jack swears that #itonlyworks.
So there you have it, to be elaborated on in future posts. I won't be quite as organised as Nickie at Typecast with her bullet journal, Filofax and desk diary but you've got admit, she's got quite a system going there. I have my 30 year old Filofax and will certainly be making good use of it with lists aplenty.
Happy New Year to everyone, may 2015 be the year of our lives! xxx
From Kate at Kate takes 5 came the idea of a word to anchor you and remind you of your direction for the year. My word for 2015 is Discipline.
We are going to bed too late, I am spending too much time online, I am not preparing lessons well enough in advance, housework is sporadic....
I've never been very self disciplined but some times are better than others. This year has been particularly sluggish with more than the usual amount of procrastination.
There is a quote: How you spend your days is how you spend your life. (Attributed to American author, Annie Dillard but I don't know if she said it first.)
My life is in danger of being lived almost entirely on fb and The DM Online. So no specific resolutions this year, just an overall discipline applied to each day.
I've also been following Jack Black on Mortgage Free in Three. His directive is to write down 30 goals in a short amount of time - without thinking too much about it, letting your subconscious in on the act, and not restricting yourself to what you perceive to be manageable. Then chunk these down to seven goals to concentrate on. He gives tasks that help imprint your goals onto your brain so that you are always working towards them even if you don't realize it. There is a bit of 'letting the universe take care of it' voodoo involved but I actually believe in what my friends Liska (New Mum Online) and Aviva Belfer call cosmic ordering. It usually delivers quite reliably in my experience. And Jack swears that #itonlyworks.
So there you have it, to be elaborated on in future posts. I won't be quite as organised as Nickie at Typecast with her bullet journal, Filofax and desk diary but you've got admit, she's got quite a system going there. I have my 30 year old Filofax and will certainly be making good use of it with lists aplenty.
Happy New Year to everyone, may 2015 be the year of our lives! xxx