Orient Toward Desire + Calibrate Often
Since the first quarantine in March, I’ve been recalibrating how I spend my days - often.
Most recently I’ve switched my working hours from afternoon naptime to before-the-kids-wake-up mornings.
Because the way we feel inside daily life is what informs everything else: how we interact with our kids, how productive we can be with work, whether or not we show up to our practice.
Which is to say, it’s important. Most important, maybe.
Let’s talk about the difference between ORIENTING your life + CALIBRATING your days.
Since the first quarantine in March, I’ve been recalibrating how I spend my days - often.
Most recently I’ve switched my working hours from afternoon naptime to before-the-kids-wake-up mornings.
Because the way we feel inside daily life is what informs everything else: how we interact with our kids, how productive we can be with work, whether or not we show up to our practice.
Which is to say, it’s important. Most important, maybe.
It’s particularly important inside the uncertainty of 2020 - because many of us are reorienting life and/or recalibrating days, regularly.
But what’s that mean, really?
To ORIENT your life toward what you desire means to identify what you want (short-term OR long-term) and face that direction.
This requires looking back to where you’ve been + looking down to where you are as ANCHOR points; and then facing your hopeful future.
To CALIBRATE your days means to embody the work it takes to get there.
This happens regularly: if we know where we’re going, we can take a few steps forward, consider whether that’s still the right direction, and then determine what’s next.
For me “recalibrating” toward the vision shows up most often in how I spend my time.
I determine whether the work I’m doing now is actually productive.
I decide whether my daily busy-ness is in alignment with my Heart.
I write down everything I’ve done + everything I haven’t done (which often helps me change up our daily schedule).
If it sounds “easy," I can assure you it's not (for me).
Simple maybe, but challenging in the sense that it requires my best effort… something I running out of, quickly.
Still, it's the best I've got right now: to anchor myself within this moment and face the direction that's calling my name (even if I'm not yet ready to step forward).
xx, alycia buenger