What I Really Value

I’ve done some thinking over the holidays and I’ve thought a lot about focusing on my values. By values I don’t just mean honesty, integrity, and cleaning up after myself. I mean my relationships, knowledge, and experiences.

How can we prune the overgrowth of relationships that clutter and exhaust us, and deepen the relationships that give us energy, inspiration, and comfort? Most of all, what can we do to insure that we have the time to waste on the people we most value? Wasting time together is one of the most defaming acts of love people can do. When people enjoy each other without having to accomplish something it celebrates the intrinsic value of the relationship.

I am also going to be more mindful of the experiences that enrich me and relish them more generously. I’m going to guard my attention so that I invest my mind on learning things deeply enough to generate new ideas, thoughts, and directions.

So that is what I mean by values; to do less with things that just show up and invest more in people, experiences, and knowledge that I value.