I started this post last year and just now opened it the day before my 56th birthday.
This is what I had started: In ten days on 11/22, I will turn 55-years-of-age. As it turns out, my Achievement Number as calculated using Numerology is 33.
So, my 55th year did not turn out as I had planned, but really, does any year? I maintain a life filled with planners and calendars and myriad ways to keep track of dates and events along with journals to detail tidbits along the way like song lyrics, band names, dialog lines, and other snippets.
This appears to be an appropriate moment for the following quote by Arianna Huffington: “If you don’t purposefully carve time out every day to progress and improve — without question, your time will get lost in the vacuum of our increasingly crowded lives.” This is exactly what happened to my 55th year. It became my year of toiling for others and giving very little to myself. Oh, the plans I made that never became.
Well, as it turns, I’ve been called out by a friend who wished to give me some “helpful advice” about my work life and how I speak about it relentlessly. (I hadn’t noticed.) She said it’s really boring to hear about how much I work. (I didn’t realize that this had become all I ever speak about.) She said, “No one cares to hear about how much you work.” (I really had no idea that this is a problem that I should look into.) She went on about it for another 3-minutes and then texted the very same thing several hours later after I had thanked her for the thoughtful yet sobering chat about how I interact with others. I’ve been under the mistaken impression that I am fun, funny, and a good listener. Eeeeks. I am dead wrong.
So, I pondered for the entire day and night. I went to bed but could not sleep. I awoke at 1a and again at 3. Then I remembered Club Thirty-Three and the wonderful crystal martini glass another dear friend, Trinh, gave to me a couple of years ago. It’s a special glass and it relates to my achievement number (for me) and to the numbers that have followed my digital footprint since I began using the online method of connection (email, blogs, etc.) danaj33 – that’s me. Well, it’s time I just stop talking about what I do all day (work) and talk more about what I would like to do (play).
I embark on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 36-days. I can hardly wait…
