Recess Girl

A New Year Mediation

So we are 2 weeks into 2008 and I promised to post my intentions for the new year after considering the question, What will make my life feel more like recess this year? Instead of a list of to do's that I will lose and find in the year 2020, I came up with a sort of affirmation/meditaion that I can easily print and look at every morning. It helps that I already have a morning routine where I journal and read from a daily mediation book. Since I can use my own mediation as a book mark, I can be sure I see it every morning. So here it is.

I am embracing who I am

I am being in the moment

I am creating, playing, singing and dancing

I am humor, laughter and lightness

I am in love with my world

I am grateful

It makes me smile just to think of it.  I almost feel guilty when I look back and see the other list I created. You know - the one that says I'm going to clear all of the clutter, exercise regularly, lose 15 pounds, home cook all of my meals, read a book a week and make my own clothes. :) That is the list I usually create. This meditation is the life I want to live.  I'll let you know how I do.

Happy New Year! What will make your life feel more like Recess in 2008?

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential".  ~Ellen Goodman

"We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day"!.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Here we are - another year has begun. I like these two quotes because they talk about potential and possibility, certainly a recess way to start the year. I'm going to take a look around my playground and think about where the biggest opportunities and potential lie. Which opportunities will make my life feel more like recess? I'll post my answers right here next week.

I pose this question to you too. What will make your life feel more like recess in 2008? If you have an answer, leave a comment. I would love to hear from you and support you.

Here's to more play and less judgment in 2008!!