My To Do List
I’ve been ignoring my personal blog lately so I thought I would make up for that by giving it a potent boost! My to Do list for today has more on it than I can ever do. Believe me when I tell you this is not a complaint. 11 Years ago fresh out of my 3rd rehab I complained that I didn’t know what to do with myself. I had more spare time than I cared to have and I noticed that during the down times I would sink into depression. Well my prayers have been answered. Today I have more to do than I can possibly get done today and ideas for things I want to learn and do that will take a lifetime to accomplish.
Today I am grateful to have a full plate. I worry sometimes that I will run out of things to do. It’s almost laughable that I ever think that way. I have had more to do than I could do in a day for quite some time now. As I said, I am not complaining. This is certainly better than having to figure out what to stick in my “To Do” list. If I sit still for too long I do sink into depression. I’ve noticed that, even all these years later it’s still true. Some would tell me I should be “treated” for that. I say I am being treated for that. The extreme dislike I have for that feeling I get when I am sitting still for too long is what drives me every day when things do look like they might be slowing down to go out and get more things for my to do list. Don’t get me wrong – I can relax and I do. Just not nearly as much as others do.
This life we have is something that looking back I realize I might have taken for granted. I might have simply gone through the motions of life, getting a job and doing that from 9-5 and wondering if there was something more out there for me but never really making the effort to find out. I am so glad I had an experience sufficient to bring me to the kind of bottom where you have nowhere to go but up. As the expression goes, nothing is the place of infinite possibility. So if you are sitting in that place I can tell you I am envious. There is a really good feeling that goes with the idea that I am starting from nothing. It means I can go anywhere and do anything. It’s like giving and artist a blank canvas and saying here – go paint ANY PICTURE YOU LIKE. That’s what all of us are.
We are all artists and life is our canvas! So go and paint your picture – whatever you conceive it to be. The greatest thing about this is that at any given time we can change the picture, regardless of what we’ve already painted. It’s just a question of whether we are willing to accept what we have painted so far as “it” or if we are willing to change it. I’ve learned through my experience that we can change it. Any time we want. That is the one thing in this life that no one can ever take away from us.
Now go fill up your to do list with the things that make up your painting.
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