Choice vs. Time
“It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices?” — Beverly Adamo
This gives me my first intention for the New Year. I choose to be intentional with how I spend my choices. I will stop fighting time. It’s impossible to fight something that doesn’t even really exist. Time is all in my head. I will choose, instead, to consider what choices I make, and will choose to spend them wisely. I will leave time out of the equation, altogether. It’s not real.
I choose to write in the morning, so I will write in the morning. It’s not about “if I wake up in time to write”, or “if I can find the time between my other early morning activities”. No, it’s not that. It’s about making the choice to write, or not. I choose to write, today, this morning.
I choose to walk five miles a day, so today, I will choose to walk. I wanted to write, “choose to find the time to walk”, but that’s not it. That will put me on the treadmill of trying to find something that doesn’t really exist. I might use that as an excuse for why I didn’t do my walking today — “I just couldn’t find the time, today.”
No, instead, I am simply choosing to walk — period. So I will walk. 5 miles. I won’t walk 3, and hope to catch my average up tomorrow. No — today, I will walk 5 miles. I will choose to keep going until I reach that point, somewhere between 10,000 and 10,200 steps, when my apple watch hits 5 miles.
That’s all I choose to write about intentions for 2019, today. I think that’s enough. If any more come up, I’ll make a note of them, and maybe write about them tomorrow. However, I will leave that choice up to tomorrow. I might feel like writing about something completely different tomorrow, and don’t want to burden myself with a choice from yesterday (today), tomorrow.
It’s all about choice. I’ve decided to make that my “word” for 2019.
Choice.
