Plan for 2010

It’s interesting how human emotions can make you feel different all of the time. My wife and I do try and live our lives as authentically as possible and being true to ourselves. In areas that we have not achieved this fully, we have plans and ideas about how to achieve it. Certainly we have a lot of big changes in our lives for 2010 planned and when I think about it, it is really exciting but also quite daunting and scary at the same time.

Most of the time it’s great to have an idea of where we are heading and a lot kind of depends on how things pan out between now and then. If I think too much about the future and what we are planning on doing, I sometimes over-analyse things and start doubting myself or our approach to life. There is a lot to be said about putting your intentions out there for what you want or wish to achieve and then living in the Present moment as much as possible. Being Present certainly gets you more focused and hopefully enjoying the journey to where you are aiming for.

This is not an easy thing to do, certinaly not for me anyway. I love dreaming and thinking of all the amazing things that we have planned for the coming year. However, this does detract me from the Present moment and being grateful and having gratitude for the things and life that we already have. Looking back, I do find that I can realign and refocus myself if I read spiritual books as I can easily get sidetracked into the ego side of things. A degree of it is fine, but it’s very easy to get myself drawn into the drama of everything when in fact, there really is no drama, it’s just me creating it in the first place.

Trusting in the process of the Universe that everything works out as it should is also a great way to keep Present. Certainly my wife is much better at that than I am. I find my brain works overtime and certainly my left-brain tends to try and work everything out which I know and believe is counter to how it all works. Knowing something and doing it are two very different things!

I should look to my wife more when my mind starts to get a bit overloaded in working how things will pan out. I guess one way of looking at it is that if I try and work everything out and plan it all, then it takes the fun and spontaneity out of life. Yes, having written this post, I will endeavour to read more spiritual books to help remind me and keep me on track in our goals and the way forward.