Welcome to my first blog post of 2015! I hope this finds you refreshed, motivated and high on love from the holidays. I can’t continue this post without commenting on the number of recent negative or controversial issues in our world – I have so many thoughts, some of which begin to contradict each other, that I can’t possibly articulate them all. What I can say is that it has always been, and will always be my hope for more peace and more kindness in the world. We can never have enough of either. I’m not naive to the fact that it’s not always that simple, but I can wish for every bad thing that happens, there are more good things happening…
This sorta brings me to my sorta New Year’s Resolution. Hello my name is Nicole, and I’m addicted to listing. To know me, is to know that I have a list and/or spreadsheet for everything. For my business, for my personal life, and for everything in between. I have post-its and notepads covering my desk, 25 lists in my Notes app on my iPhone, close to 100 Google docs with duplicative word docs and excel spreadsheets, 2 written calendars plus my Google calendar and iCalendar, an entire chalkboard wall of “to-do’s” and I’m just getting started. Most of these things have the same tasks or same grocery list on them so technically I have to check something off in at least 3 places when I complete it. I literally have everything in my life written or typed down on some sort of list. I started to recognize this as a problem when I typed on one of my iPhone lists “change roll of toilet paper” rather than just changing it right then and there! My New Year’s Resolution isn’t to simply have less lists, it’s a bit deeper than that. By over-organizing and over-planning every little detail out, I’m becoming not only less productive but am perpetuating a cycle of not living in the moment. I’m naturally inclined to worry too much about what could happen or what has already happened and I think this constant state of not tackling something right away, but instead listing it, is not helping my cause. Plus, I beat myself up when I don’t have everything crossed off my list but we all know that’s not realistic {especially when you have hundreds of things on your list}! And can’t it only help strengthen my memory to not rely on a list all the time, but think on my toes more? I can’t completely get rid of taking notes and writing lists for myself, it’s imperative to stay organized as a one-woman shop. But I can seriously cut back and instead of writing down meaningless things that take more time to write them, address them right away.
I know this isn’t the most monumental resolution but it’s one little thing I can do to make me a more present, less neurotic and more peaceful person. And trust me, I have plenty of the other cliché resolutions swirling through my mind, but guess what? I am not writing them down on this list!
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