For Twenty Ten – More And Less

I have spent some of this Christmas season doing something I have wanted to do for a long time. I have been getting all of our home movies off of my ( now ) ancient Hi 8 tapes and onto my computer. It has been fun learning about making my own movies and messing around with iMovie.

What was unexpected ( at least for me ) was the slug in the gut I have been getting every time I put in a new tape. I have watched video in the last 24 hours that I have not watched in seven or eight years of my kids early Christmases, their preschool graduations, and other really fun stuff. It has made me realize that while I have been sweating about how and when to do the next thing, the time has been flying by at a pace that even I did not recognize. As the saying goes, “The days go on forever, but the years fly by.” I found this video by Gretchen Rubin this morning while catching up on Twitter.

I have been thinking the last few days about what I can do to make sure I make the most of my own personal blip of time. I came up with this idea of a More and Less List. I have never done New Year’s resolutions, and I like to think of this as something more than that, whether it really is or not. If it resonates with you as a way to express where you want to head in your own life, add your own list to the comments below. I intend to use these bullet points as the guideposts for my decisions this year, and write consistently about whether I am passing or failing.

With that, I present my More And Less List for 2010:

  • More doing, less talking about doing
  • More time with people I want to spend time with, less time with people I don’t
  • More thinking about impacting the world, less thinking about impacting myself
  • More seeing the world, less seeing the inside of my house.
  • More in the moment, less in the future and even less in the past
  • More gratitude, less complaining
  • More appreciation for what I have, less hand-wringing about what I don’t have and what that means.
  • More energy, less fatigue
  • More big, less small

What are your Mores and Lesses for 2010?

Here’s to a life-altering 2010.