focus on what really matters

is letting go of what doesn’t matter. Too often, I worry about silly things. I need to take a step back and focus on the bigger picture.

My uni course is serving up a buffet of things that really matter. I am learning in ‘enviromental ethics’ about casues of despotism. Today we studied economic growth and progress.

Super interesting fact: How the earth population has boomed since the 1850’s. Exploding from around 500 million people to some 6.5 billion in such a short space of time.

Oh my goodness….It’s not good for someone like me (being a super soft mush bag) to study a course like Development study. After a full day at uni I’m de-briefing (more like off-loading) with my house mate Jeremy about things I’ve learned: Injustice, inequality, poverty, racism and so on and I’m reduced to tears. I’m such a sop face.

After reading my latest book “Road to lost innocence” about sex slavery in Cambodia and fresh after watching a documentary about Dafur and the atrocities that have been played out there. I open my internet home page to nine msn to see the headlines read about some fat comments about Tyra Banks made by some washed up model has-been. And I want to cry…..

Today while listening ABC news, not mainstream run of the mill news I heard a report about a strain of the Ebola virus that has broken out in Uganda. So far it has claimed 41 lives in a few short months- why don’t I hear about this on mainstream news??? This is human lives people- yet I predominately hear about Britney’s fat. It makes me mad.

What frustrates me more is thet fact that I buy into the whole deal- that I’m a seduced daily by things that don’t matter.

I use a To Do list and a calendar and I prioritize my tasks. I use a system of marking things as urgent (ABC) and important (123) that I learned from a book by Stephen Covey.

What really matters right now seems to be “self care” activities like exercise, doing things that are fun. I was focussing too much on to do lists, and “shoulds”, and impossible goals. I need to focus on what I am doing right, not what I haven’t done. My boyfriend also does this so we bring each other down. We’re going for a walk now which will be a good self care activity.

..43 things has really helped me stay focused on what really matters, therefore I check it regularly to remind myself of the 43 things I really want and decide whether I really still want it.

Been really challenging myself everyday to focus on what really matters but some people may not like that too much…

i know what really matters. focusing doesn’t matter, trust me. if you don’t stray a little bit…life would suck. seriously. it would suck you into a never ending spiral of conformity and dull-ish-ness…yeah.

so…blah

I reordered my goal list in order of how many cheers each goal gets. If they are getting cheers then maybe they deserve more of my attention.