The Beautiful Letdown

A breastfeeding blog that dabbles in tandem, extended nursing, gentle parenting and much more

Living Purposefully

January2

I guess you could say that sums up my New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion. I want to do things on pur­pose. I don’t want to float through life and just take what comes. My life is pretty good right now. I’m a stay at home mom (a job I LOVE). I have two happy healthy chil­dren. I have an amaz­ing hus­band. We own a house. We have a yard. I could go on and on. Just think how won­der­ful my life could be if I spent more time doing things pur­pose­fully rather than just let­ting them happen.

In the new year, I want to leave behind the fast food lifestyle (a term I just made up, so if it doesn’t make sense to you, I’ll take the blame) and live inten­tion­ally. What does that mean? Well, to me, it means I want to stop wast­ing time watch­ing tv. I want to watch tv I choose to watch. It means I want to stop eat­ing fast food and junk food that have a lot of calo­ries but not much taste or nutri­tion. It means I want to stop read­ing quick, light, easy read­ing books. I want to read books that make me think. It means that I don’t want to waste time on the inter­net. I want to choose to relax by read­ing blogs I enjoy or vis­it­ing web­sites I like. I want to choose to use my time and cre­ate expe­ri­ences that I value. I want to choose to spend my money on things that mat­ter instead of buy­ing some­thing because it is cheap or a good deal even if I may not really need it.

Is that a res­o­lu­tion? A goal? A lifestyle change? I don’t know. I sup­pose it doesn’t mat­ter, but what I want is last­ing expe­ri­ences instead of fleet­ing ones. I want to make a choice and have some­thing to show for it down the road.

How about you? Do you have a change, goal, or res­o­lu­tion you are work­ing on?

posted under changes
5 Comments to

“Living Purposefully”

  1. On January 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 am Lam Says:

    I was blog-hopping and hap­pened upon yours. And I must say, you’ve said so much using so few words…and that is an impres­sive feat. I absolutely love your aim to live pur­pose­fully. I too have a mind­ful liv­ing goal for the year because I just tired of coast­ing through life and miss­ing so much of it. Oh, and we don’t even have a TV in the house. You’d be sur­prised how much time there is in the day when you chose to reduce your daily dose of the boob tube. :)

  2. On January 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 am vivienne Says:

    I totally agree with your views on life and chang­ing them. I am known to waste time when there is so much in my life I would like to ful­fil, rather than waste it doing noth­ing. I have tried to stop watch­ing rub­bish on the television,by sit­ting and read­ing instead. I also plan to junk the junk food lifestyle. It does you no good and doesn’t really fill you up. So good luck with your change of atti­tude to life, I hope we both get where we want to.

  3. On January 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm Casey Says:

    vivi­enne– I hope so, too. :) Best wishes on your blog­ging. I hope you find that it is a worth­while use of your time in 2009!

  4. On January 3rd, 2009 at 5:42 pm Casey Says:

    Lam– Our tv died and some­how res­ur­rected itself about a month later. We’re not really sure what hap­pened. Since then, I have found myself watch­ing *sig­nif­i­cantly* less tv. Right now, I like it for the occa­sional col­lege hockey game. Other than that, I think I could leave every­thing else on tv with­out much thought or sacrifice.

  5. On January 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pm Barbara Says:

    Very nice blog you have here, Casey. Excel­lent post.

    Your res­o­lu­tion to be inten­tional res­onates with me. So many peo­ple live in the winds of their lives. Their rea­son­ing for every event is exter­nal to them­selves. I don’t leave sup­port­ive com­ments to posts whin­ing on ‘why my life is so bad’.