AtoZ Holistic Self-care: Under the Wire — T thru Z

After ‘catching up’ on letters R and S, I thought for sure I’d hunker down and plow out the remaining letters of the AtoZ Challenge. Alas, here we are on April 30 — and I have an entire week of thoughts about self-care to crank out. I hope to keep it short enough to make it consumable but profound enough to make the reading worthwhile. I’d love to hear your thoughts if you decide to finish up the T-Z with me:

T: Target

To target is to “select as an object of attention or attack.”

What are you aiming for? What is your bulls-eye? Why do you do what you do? Without a target, it is difficult to aim. To be sure, having a target isn’t always about getting something done. Without a target, we are even more likely to wander or flail.

I think of choosing ‘to be’ rather than ‘to do’ as having a target of attention, and when we want to accomplish something, we select an object of ‘attack’. Sometimes life needs to be about getting NOTHING DONE and just being. But if we don’t set that target, we’re likely to busy ourselves — perhaps with meaningless tasks because we don’t know HOW to relax.

For the “list happy, get-things-done” among us, perhaps making a target list of ‘attention’ rather than ‘attack’ is just what we need for self-care.