Mind, Body, Heart & Soul....

I'm sad to see this summer go... I am expecting chaos at my school next week with the new administration and the new computer scheduling system and two more new computer systems to learn in addition. I really don't mind all the changes, I can adapt fairly easily, but I know many others can't and I am anticipating many a frazzled persons to burst through my office door in a steady stream for days. The healing effects of the summer should be completely obliterated by Friday. Such is life.

I have decided to do a few things differently this year, however.

Mind
I am going to make sure I have other things to focus on beside work. It can quickly become all consuming and I do mean ALL CONSUMING, especially in the beginning and I don't want to burn out. I am going to do more with boys school, and volunteer to be a committee or be a class mom. I am going to work on some writing projects I have in the works and definitely participate in NaNoWriMo again this year, and hopefully finish editing the book I wrote for it last year. I would like to take a pottery class or two just for fun. I played with clay some this summer and it was amazingly therapeutic.

Body
I have also decided that I'm going to get this family into some regular organic eating. There are some local food co-ops I'm going to explore because we could all used a nutritional overhaul. I am not going to even begin to address the exercising that is needed yet... fix food first.

Heart
I am definitely involving the boys in some significant charity work this year, even if it's just something our family does alone. I thought that it might be great to have them sell some things they don't use anymore and donate it to a struggling family.

Soul
I'm going to continue my quest for spiritual awareness and the meaning of life, in a more practical way. I am going to stop waiting for the giant epiphany to fall out of the sky and onto my head and look a little more... locally.

I found this book.

Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit

The book is a collection of 101 simple tasks that take anywhere from seconds to minutes to complete. It could be just a thought to ponder or an action to take or mindset to consider.

"The idea is to provoke tiny moments of awareness. Invent things to do, to say, to dream, that produce astonishment or the unease generated by certain questions."

Sounds fun, no?

I am going to start by trying out ten of the experiments that I will write about here. I want to choose the numbers randomly and see what the universe has in store!

So... anyone want to choose a number between 1 and 101 to get me started?