Since reading that, I've been pondering my answers to those questions. Granted, our books are part of many others in our series. And this book, on this year, certainly has connections to past books and will have connections to future books as well.
How many years have gone by for you and there isn't much of anything in your book? Sure ... a good time here, a party there. But overall? Not much. At least, not much that propels it forward and builds into the next year.
Or, maybe you feel that your book has been building and building, the 'rising action' just keeps rising ... to what? Until that moment the light gets snuffed out? Is that what this series of books are ultimately about?
Or maybe there's something else that is possible.
I guess, ultimately, it is all in each our individual hands, right? In a recent Twitter post, someone asked: why do you think older people don't play video games as much as younger people? A good question. Many responded with responses like lack of dexterity, less likely to try new hobbies, tough to learn and play, difficulty in moving. The responses are interesting - and perhaps not altogether wrong. But it becomes evident when someone who is older answers - it often has to do with time management, how to be productive and purposeful with your time. For me, it was about leaving something behind when I had passed. And how playing video games does not set one up to leave something of substance behind. Playing video games, though perhaps good when one is young (for dexterity and such) is not something to spend copious amounts of time on. For one, the health factor (do you know how much DVTs or PEs have risen in the last few years? all connected to inactivity of people sitting in front of a screen?); for another, the time factor (those hours used on the computer will never be returned to you and how many people can afford to throw hours, days, weeks, YEARS of the best / healthiest time of their lives down a toilet with no progress or concrete outcome?). I've lost a lot of my life to sleep ... I know the consequences of 'lost time'. I need to guard against doing that, replacing sleep with something else. I've already had two PEs (Pulmonary Emboli), I know what leads to that ... and inactivity is one of the leading causes of this.
So, my blank book. This year. What do I want to be in these pages? I want FULL pages. I want action. I want production, I want change and progress. No excessive 'sleep' - either actual or figurative. We can sleep through life in many ways, and I've done enough sleeping. Now, for maintenance ... and the rest needs to be action.
Many years ago, when I went through a season of unemployment, I discovered "The Planner Community" - a group of people (mostly women) who really get into planning. Many of them come out of the scrapbooking community, I think, as so much of what they produce is an extension of that. Stickers, Pretties. But along the way, I created my own. And this year, I think I'm close to perfecting it. I like what I have and it will work towards giving fuel to my days.
I bid you adieu for now. Here's to a productive, dream-filled and work-fuelled year! Every adventure begins with one step. Let's take that first step into the new adventure called 2023.
What will your book be? What will your verse be? Here are the covers for mine.
This will definitely be the year for GMST!!! (Getting my sh*t together!!) 😁
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