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Simply..still time....

27/1/2020

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It's still January!

There is still time to do January/beginning of the new year things - refresh, reset, renew, retreat, reinvent, reconsider, revive...

I took a few days retreat to myself after coming back from my trip to the cities. I'm lucky I can plan my own time but if you have a busy life/home/work schedule can you find an hour, an evening. a day or a weekend to have to yourself?

All those re- words! Meaning again. (It's Never Too Late To Start Again is the title of a good book by Julia Cameron).

Refresh

What needs refeshing? The water in the flower vase? The paintwork? Your memory? My wardrobe needs refreshing.

Reset

I wish I could reset my sleep pattern to sleep at the same time as the rest of the world!  It would be so convenient. I am working on it. A Wim Hof Breathing Method and Meditation video helped before bed last night
What would you like to reset, and how will you do it?

Renew

A subscription? I need to renew the back of the shed and my travel insurance.  This is turning into a to-do list! But I don't mean it that way - I am just thinking of it as a prompt for slightly different ways of looking at things. You might also renew your commitment to something. Or to someone.

Retreat

Since I went on Katrina's marvellous retreat in January 2017 I have realised the value of retreating from the everyday, and intend to explore it even more. (See Katrina's blog here). There are humdreds of types of retreats or you can just invent your own.

Reinvent

Not the wheel please - is there any area in your life where you are doing that? We can reinvent ourselves to a degree. When I found the courage to call myself an artist my life changed. When I stopped calling myself a wimp I got stronger.

Reconsider

Sometimes I have to reconsider what's feasible, or a decision I've made which I am unsure about.

Revive

As nature miraculously revives the garden I have to revive my interest in caring for it.  Perhaps you would like to revive an old interest - something you loved to do as a child? Something you love that's got crowded out?

Maybe one of these words speaks to you.


10 Comments
julia
28/1/2020 12:14:31 pm

Hi Freda...good on you!! You are truly an inspiration..:-) i remember when i was a busy mother with my many activities, and children, my way of refreshing myself was to set aside an hour each morning, as soon as the kids when off to school, and i would read....that was. My gift to myself and it was essential to my well-being..anything could happen with the rest of my day, as long as i got my hour of reading in.
Now i am reinventing myself and have taken on two new challenges that i was initially not even willing to consider.....stretch! ...exciting!

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Freda
28/1/2020 02:03:12 pm

What a lovely and important gift to yourself. I expect everyone benefited from that. Am most interested in your two new challoenges!

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julia
29/1/2020 04:53:22 am

Thank you for asking, Freda..:-) i’ve been invited to submit art to an exhibit focusing on health challenges. It has to be a large piece, 16x20 inches, and i’ve been working small for a few years. And also have been invited to write an article for an online blog about film and photography in WW2 ..that will be a REAL stretch for me!

Mary
29/1/2020 04:37:58 am

There was so much in this post I have printed it off to contemplate...or should I say, review. :)

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Freda
29/1/2020 02:22:21 pm

There is quite a lot here....I could have gone on..and on...!

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Grace
29/1/2020 12:37:01 pm

I will come back to this post over the weekend when I will have more headspace.

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Freda
29/1/2020 02:24:18 pm

See above reply Grace - I did have fun thinking about all the ‘re’ words.

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Freda
29/1/2020 02:19:47 pm

Julia those sound challenging but also exciting but clearly others have real confidence in you. Congratulations!

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Susan
31/1/2020 02:18:26 am

Thank you, Freda. I find these very useful, in particular Refresh (because visually refreshing my environment seems to shift other stuff for me) and Reconsider (things that have served me well may no longer do so; I may have to re-evaluate my plans in accordance with how I am now)

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Freda
31/1/2020 02:41:07 pm

REally pleased you liked this Susan!

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