Comments on: Life’s To-Don’t Lists

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:20:59 +0000

Thanks for the post, Elizabeth. My to-do list in life looks much like yours, which is something that has bothered me for a while now, only because it gives me no specific answers about what I should be doing with my life RIGHT NOW! Okay, so it does in a big way do that…but I guess I feel it’s more difficult to stay focused when you keep your options wide open. Anyway, good food for thought for me, so thanks.

Congratulations, by the way!!!

PS: Earlier I was google searching for career advice (haha I know) and the term CDF came up which made me think of you and how I’ve been wanting to catch up on your blog

By: Nicki

Nicki — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:53:29 +0000

That blob looks beautiful!

On goals, I spent a lot of time just surviving. When that is what is on the plate, goals get shoved to the back or totally pushed off the plate. Now, life is more settled and doable. Goals are beginning to reshape to my current life. I tend to aim big but not quite as big as you. I think you have probably inspired a plethora of blog entries by all of us as we think about our to-do lists.

By: Daddo

Daddo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:05:08 +0000

Don’t wait to arrive at “that place;” the location where the puzzle pieces finally fall perfectly into position and you become fully transformed? If “somehow” you DID arrive at “that place” say – this weekend – what in the world would you do on Monday?

I’m in my 60’s now and it seems to me that for the last 30+ years that “that place” keeps changing – I can’t seem to pin “that place” down. Sometimes I wonder if I have already been to “that place” but I wasn’t smart enough to recognize it when I got there.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:45:28 +0000

Yay, yay, yay on the healthy baybay!

As far as lists…um, yeah. Life to-do lists shift somewhat when kids are in the picture. I don’t want to say that they don’t exist or don’t matter any more, because that is FAR FROM THE TRUTH. For me, anyway, it has just changed. I have changed. And change is good. And changing that list I made when I was in High School is good. And changing that list I made when I was 24 or 28 is good. Today’s list is solid. Some practical. Some life-long goals. I’m content.

But that’s today. Ask me tomorrow.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:32:01 +0000

Hey! Just to let you know that you have been awarded a Beautiful Blogger Award… Link back to my blog to find out the details…

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:41:54 +0000

“‘Quest’ of my questions” — LOVE IT!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:29:20 +0000

Here is a lesson in being here NOW…I just typed this thoughtful, long response to your post today, and then submitted only to get an error message that my email was not correct. Hitting the back button revealed that all I typed was lost. So…rather than rewriting all of that, I’m going to embrace that as being here NOW. I wrote something about a phrase I heard on Sunday (in church of all places for me to be!) about focusing on the “quest” of my “questions” in my life. It has helped me focus on my own “goals” (that are so uncannily similar to E’s) and to remember that I am on a journey and BEING on the journey and focusing on my quest of my life is more the point than the end product I often seek or put more attention toward.

Gosh I wish I hadn’t lost that other response….all part of the journey!

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:14:44 +0000

Finding peace: is there any greater of expression of being “in the now” than finding peace? This might be the topic of an upcoming post: HOW to Find Peace.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:07:33 +0000

Thank you for sharing he wonderful picture of your baby. Amazing isn’t it!
I”m glad everything went well.

On my to do list is one thing: Find Peace. I mean, find peace within myself, find peace in difficult situations, find peace as a kind of faith.

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:02:50 +0000

Hey, that Blob looks downright human. Nicely done!

Your post today made me think of Emily’s post about puzzles yesterday at Mothers of Brothers. I loved what she had to say about the meditative quality of completing a defined task – a feeling I can relate to and certainly seek myself. I am a big to-do list maker, but mine are usually very specific, short-term goals. I look forward to following your explorations in the coming weeks. I’ll bring my travel journal and follow along.