My Commit App ping’d me daily asking if I was going to write, but unfortunately I ignored it. Preparing for a two-day cross country drive followed by a two week vacation had drained me. Like yesterday’s washcloth hanging on the side of the tub, my creativity’s been dormant and dry. My scenario only lasted a few days, but I wonder about those who condone lifestyles that keeps them distracted or drained from progress. Oftentimes it’s not drama or crisis, but just rings, pings and buzzes from the handheld attention vampires we’re all conditioned to react to like the blazing siren of a speeding police car. But the more serious I get about taking my values and priorities serious, the more aware I become of the large and small addictions that get in the way.
The same could be for deciding to change your diet for weight-loss or change your speech to be more affirming instead of criticizing. Neither our past nor our environment will create a yellow brick road for walking into a changed lifestyle.
But after we start taking actions congruent with the new person we’re choosing to be, only then will we realize the world will get along just fine without the old us.