Someone smart said to me today, "Stuff is simple if you let it be. Smart people complicate things as an excuse not to act."Without even knowing it, he boiled down the entire Miss Adventurous philosophy into a sentence and reminded me of who I am.
I'm a smart people. No reason to start complicating things now, right? Right.
Additionally, The Salty One referred me to this Article about Just-In-Time thinking as opposed to Just-In-Case. (It's good. Go read it.)
All this smacks of that whole John Kabat-Zinn Wherever You Go, There You Are sort of mindfulness. I read some of his stuff a little over a year ago, and I still find comfort in closing my eyes and whispering "This is it."
It's three different messages that all express the same thing: instead of worrying so much about what could be, I should really just focus on what is. I'm having a hard time with that right now, perhaps because the job I'm on isn't that awesome, and I'm really wishing to move up to something different, something more challenging. It's hard to stay in the moment when you're not happy in so many of your moments. I've been placing a lot of pressure on myself to make all my moments outside of the job happy to compensate for not being happy in the job, scheduling dates and runs and friend time instead of relaxing and letting things flow. In doing so I'm really just making myself even more miserable. When things just happen organically they always turn out much better than expected anyway.
Well today I give myself a clean slate. Simplicity is my mantra for the week-month-year-life-whatever. Today I will quit putting so much pressure on myself to force awesomeness and just let the awesomeness flow from within.
Today I'm takin' it back...back to when I first got here, before I had my career, before I had any real solid friends, before I had superbly awkward moments in the back of taxicabs, back when I had no complaints because I was experiencing my life as my own for the very first time. Back then I had only three things that made me happy: running, dancing, and tooling around New York with love in my heart and a fool's grin on my face. And that's exactly what I plan to do today.
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That is all sorts of awesome. I read this book SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life last year, by Julie Morgenstern, and it made a world of difference. Lots of the same type of thinking. But sometimes we just have to be reminded of it from day to day. Hey, did you see on Facebook that I've been running? I still remember you trying to get me to run in high school and how hard it was for me. It's still hard, but I've learned to love the high, so I'm pushing it, slowly but surely.
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