In order to shake up my life a bit, I'm saying yes to life in the new year. I know it's not a new thing. Books have been written about this phenomenon, self-help "thing". While I'm not a big "self-helper", I am slowly realizing that I need to do something simple and positive to create some new and enriching opportunities in my life; I need a change and I need it now! Saying yes to whatever opportunities arise seems like it will be the perfect thing.
For those of you who don't understand what saying yes to life is (I tend to coin my own phrases a lot and then can't figure out why people don't understand what I am talking about, that and I guess I talk fast. But I digress...), saying yes to life means I will say yes to pretty much every opportunity, socially, workwise, family, anything. In short, this is your chance to ask me to do whatever wild thing your brains can cook up (for me that would be going out of my house and staying up past 10 pm on a week night; I told you I need some major change in my life. I'm a dud right now.)
So yes, I'm doing this to get myself out of a little bit of a funk I have been in for the past year. Working on a project motivates me and like I mentioned in my previous blog posts, my big, epic project ended in 2013. After that, I'm not going to lie, I was pretty discombobulated with my identity as a filmmaker and a mother as my son is getting older (definitely one of the reasons I'm writing this blog.) The following year pretty much tired me out (remember what I wrote about fundraising and selling myself, or trying to).
Life, while fun and great, can become a simple list of task after task, a series of to do lists. In my life, I especially feel the weight of this monotony at the end of the year, during the whirl of holidays, parties, and family birthdays. I get completely tuckered out.
Now that I have a built in break (and my son is visiting his grandparents so I have very little responsibility), I am able to take stock of what I need. I'm also reading Amy Poehler's fabulous memoir, "Yes, Please" right now and I realized that this is precisely what I need to do, treat life like an improv sketch and say motherfucking YES to whatever comes my way. What a great way for me to get re-energized and have some fun in the process.
As such, please note, I am saying yes to life this year and will be creating and saying yes to any and all sustaining, enriching, and most importantly, FUN opportunities. I am committed to working on any projects with people I enjoy being and working with, projects I believe in that make a positive difference in the world, meeting new, fun people, having exciting, interesting, fun, new experiences in new and old places with friends and acquaintances I already know, and doing a whole lot of writing.
Bring it 2015! Here's to saying yes to life and staying up past 10pm! Now I must go out take out the garbage! YES!
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