May 2021 Oasis Odyssey

by Leslie Ackles

Losing Your Marbles?


"Our intention creates our reality."
-Wayne Dyer

Spring is here! We celebrated Easter with some of our grandchildren! We got our vaccines and many others in our family on getting theirs. We are moving into a new phase of the pandemic and there are times I am excited and exhilarated and other times that I am anxious and unsure. What is okay for me to do? What do I want to do? How do I want to live going forward?

I know as I move into my post vaccinated world I don't want to go back to the way I lived my life before the pandemic. I want to move forward differently. I want to choose how I want to live my life. I want to live with a new intention, and with a new mindset. I want to take stock of my life and choose my next steps very deliberately.

  • How do you want to live in a post vaccine world? post pandemic world?

 

I decided that I wanted to embrace the spaciousness that I discovered in lock down. I do not want to go back to the busyness of prepandemic times. I realized that in the past I sometimes made decisions just to be busy!


So I was reading Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper and she suggested an activity to help making decisions based on my new intention as I step into my new life. I will put a marble in a jar at the end of each day based on whether or not I lived my intention that day. This will really force me to pay attention to the decisions I make each day on how to spend my time.

I started the exercise and I can say that this living in a new way is HARD! The world is opening up and it is HARD not to slip back into my old way of living which means being super busy. I didn't get a marble one day because I let a glitch on my website basically hijack my whole day. It didn't have to be solved that day but I immediately pounced on it and ran with it. OOPS! Yesterday I said to my husband my urge to add another project was so strong it was almost impossible to withstand. But I did and I ended up with a lovely day of planned errands and tasks, a walk in the sun and reading a book. I ended the day with a smile and a marble!

"I haven't lost all my marbles but there's definitely a hole in the bag!" - anonymous

So how many marbles will be in your jar? Will you have a hole in your bag?
  • What do you want to embrace?
  • What do you want to leave behind?
  • What will be your intention, your source of meaning?

Will you join me in the Marble Intentions Exercise?

Asking yourself: Did I earn a marble today?

My Blessing for You:
May you step into your new intention
May you embrace your new life