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2010 A New Year, Again  Paris, January 3rd 2010 Abu Dhabi, January 9th 2010 Yesterday I had a conversation with someone who couldn’t stress more on Patience, and it was amazing, because as I listened, my mind sprouted with omnifarious derivatives of “Patience” that poured into my mind in forms of thoughts, examples, situations, words, and images. It was like watching a documentary of a tree life cycle speeded up on the Discovery channel; the seed planted in soil, sprouts, grows a stem, grows many stems, grows leaves, leaves become eminent at their full size, they flower, flowers morph into big fruits – all in 5 seconds or less. That was the turning point, that was when the racing consuming thoughts I’ve had over the past 2 weeks have come to bay – suddenly, I have a plan, one that involves swallowing the bullet and doing nothing at all. Abu Dhabi, Today So, my updated plan for 2010 is: - Learn to be patient - - Give face to the signs of the universe (yes, more than I do already) - Decorate my place in France (process initiated) - - Play word games (I love words) - Read المخطوطه القرمزيه - Learn how to deep sleep - Learn how to live in the absence of a blackberry (switch it off more often, for prolonged periods of time) - If I can’t bring about a big pragmatic paradigm change to my people, there’s no harm in trying for change to come in small bit-by-bit form - I don’t have to be first every time - Spend time with children before they get an education, and learn from their free and boundless minds - Spend more time with the elderly, and learn from what worked for them, what hasn’t, and what really matters in life - Try to explore at least one more new sport, except golf - Remind myself often that no matter how good (or bad) any situation is, it will change - Know when to give up, and when to hold on ..and more importantly, act upon it. - Integrate 10 minutes of yoga meditation into my pilates-for-breakfast schedule - Design my own stables, and believe that eventually, it will materialize - Get a carousel horse - Make something useful with it - Continue finding ways to doing things with love, despite my biggest disappointments in people and situations - Publish some of the maaaaany posts I wrote but never got around publishing - Start creating something, my thing. I don't know what it is, and it may not finish by year end, but at least start it - - Find a shared husband for my dogs Chanel & Tantra (Tantra MUST have babies, if you know of a cute male chihuahua that hasn't been fixed, email me & I'll love you foreverrrr) - Go to Dubai's Global Village this year (yep, I've never been. Seriously) - Take time off of work without travel, and only to enjoy Abu Dhabi - Come up with sensitive and exceptionally diplomatic ways of saying “No” to people - Give up on understanding the complexity of male egos. The mechanics of Life are not very different from that of the jungle: Many monkeys, 1 alpha-male (the lion). Lesson learned? Males are ubiquitous, Men are few. - Appreciate the few genuine people I have in my life more - Depreciate inconsistent people who consume my energy, repeatedly - And finally, know that a person's biggest and most precious asset of all time is good intentions $4 in my moola box | link | email this post |
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