tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post1021373910359197110..comments2023-06-01T04:34:34.526-04:00Comments on Charmed I'm Sure: What Are Your Core Life Priorities?Deborah Castellanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715780448380813436noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-76150353485051780192011-11-03T18:39:55.642-04:002011-11-03T18:39:55.642-04:00Thanks for sharing everyone! It's good to kno...Thanks for sharing everyone! It's good to know I'm not alone! I think you hit the nail right on the head, @petoskystone. It's become my gritted teeth mantra, six more weeks, six more weeks . . .Deborah Castellanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16715780448380813436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-580095313163327952011-10-29T18:51:34.069-04:002011-10-29T18:51:34.069-04:00Core life priorities...
1) Live by Art and Queer ...Core life priorities...<br /><br />1) Live by Art and Queer as much as possible (getting better at this, although I'm still On Contract for The Man, I'm at least only working half-days as of Monday and, otherwise, am working as a model, a rainbow health outreach person, and - when I can hack it - a writer. So yay!)<br /><br />2) Maintain a steady, livable income (which is becoming less and less at odds with the first priority - YAY!)<br /><br />3) Love openly, trust wisely but freely, be joyful as much as possible, and don't base my decisions on fear (working on it - this is a hard one in a number of ways)<br /><br />5) Develop a savings account, pay off the credit card debt, and get an RRSP or three and start saving for (a) a house, and (b) retirement (ahahahaha... But at least I've got an ING account and am, in theory, meeting with my bank next week about RRSPs)<br /><br />6) Write every day, and eventually turn my blog posts into books (doing better than I was. Planning to use nanowrimo to help me stick with this)<br /><br />7) Get steadily better and more consistent when it comes to writing poetry and porn (er... this one is still "having difficulties" at best. It stopped being *easy* to write porn... shortly before my divorce, and it's still like pulling teeth a lot of the time. Poetry has fallen by the way-side in a lot of ways, too. Which sucks, but I'm not sure how to get my poetry-mojo back -- I'm open to suggestions <*shrug*>)<br /><br />8) Spend more time in Pagan head-space, do daily (ahaha) offerings, and generally make my spirituality an active part of my life (currently this is entirely about blogging at http://birchtreemaiden.wordpress.com/, with plans to get the offerings back on track next week, when I start working half-days and may actually have Time and Energy to do so, and fewer excuses as to why I'm not).<br /><br />9) Do yoga and/or other exercise-like things on a weekly, or more-frequent-than-weekly, basis. (Again, this is one that should pick up, at least a little bit, once I'm working from home half of every day. I can just roll out the yoga mat in the living room and get on with it. Though I'm also wanting to start going to a weekly class with my sweetie).<br /><br /><br />Uh... So, yeah. Huge long comment about core life priorities and where they're at, the short answer being: I have lots! They are mostly struggling along in a half-assed kind of way. Um.<br />Thanks for letting me blab! :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-7219751165085654192011-10-29T08:11:40.378-04:002011-10-29T08:11:40.378-04:00it does occur to me, though, that for those who cr...it does occur to me, though, that for those who craft as part of thier livlihood, this is the time when 'overdrive' is an expected part of the holiday season. so, provided you can survive the next 6 weeks, 'time' for your core activities should be back on the radar. how odd that high john would put people off...such a reputation he has, even among the mundanes ;) your dream ambassadors sound adorable!petoskystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633621111274495078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-36756208096763394512011-10-29T08:08:07.673-04:002011-10-29T08:08:07.673-04:00must be that proverbial 'time of the year'...must be that proverbial 'time of the year'....feeling the same..need to get back to the exercise (helps my knees), back to somethings which need to be done to achieve an end-goal. first thing going is my ultimate timesuck: facebook...down it goes to once a day, no more than 45 mins....petoskystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633621111274495078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-15303465098301099512011-10-28T20:36:49.202-04:002011-10-28T20:36:49.202-04:00your core life priorities pretty much match my own...your core life priorities pretty much match my own. I'm also feeling a bit thin. time for me to take some time away from .... something? or reorganze. maybe less pinterest is needed in my life??<br /><br />naw, who am i kidding?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10016794254846488389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-57714464625634216122011-10-28T18:09:11.946-04:002011-10-28T18:09:11.946-04:00Looks like I"m not the only one, struggling t...Looks like I"m not the only one, struggling to disconnect from the things that aren't working for me or on my path and reconnect with those things that were working for me and were on my path. I suspect it goes back and forth, rather like a pendulum and hopefully things will swing as high upward as they have downward. :D For all of us.Ember the Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01561490331710972541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-16096128889670028072011-10-28T15:57:55.778-04:002011-10-28T15:57:55.778-04:00Funny, that is close to what I wrote about today.....Funny, that is close to what I wrote about today... priorities and commitment, and the need to get all done. ^^Diandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570498251611083259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8342544694680738280.post-14334107639072379542011-10-28T15:09:31.107-04:002011-10-28T15:09:31.107-04:00For a long time I languished in a dying relationsh...For a long time I languished in a dying relationship. That pretty much tanked out my spiritual and creative reserves. I spent about six months being "on empty" and just surviving. I managed to actually DO things (which I hadn't for the previous six months), like washing myself, cleaning the house, feeding the children, etc. <br /><br />Now, in our new home... I'm a diva again. The house is *clean* (not tidy but actually clean). The meals are well made, served on time, and made from fresh ingredients. I'm up on time every morning to get the kids out the door to school. The chores are being done. I'm finding time for things like baking, which I did today (and blogged about). <br /><br />And suddenly the wights (or land spirits or fae or whatever you want to call them) began calling to me out in the woods behind the house. My gods are talking to me again. My spiritual life is picking up. My weight is going down. My life is happy. I have sad moments, but they're *moments* and not the whole thing. <br /><br />Right now I'm being mindful. I spent most of a year being neglectful, though, and I understand.RevAllysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08647500969442410706noreply@blogger.com