“Part of the Process” — a journey of being me

So as clearly stated earlier in this…project…I wanted this to be a daily blog. Obviously that hasn’t happened. Oops. But I’m thinking about renaming this little blog to be something different. I enjoy throwing my philosophical though processes to ya’ll…I do enjoy it. I just wish I could figure out a way to incorporate it into my daily routine and be able to let this blog live up to its name.

But dedication. It’s a process. To be dedicated to anything it deserves time, energy, and will ask you to give something in return. It might be money, a creative idea, task completion(s), anything. Of course right now I’m thinking of a particular dedication I have been faithful to for a long time and that is my work-study job at school. I am a technical assistant for Colby-Sawyer College (I’m basically a theatre extraordinare…) and I was recently awarded for my service to the theatre. I talked to my boss today and he said that he nominated me because of my hard work and time that I have put into the theatre this semester. But in order to be successful dedicating myself to the theatre it took an unbelievable amount of time, energy, focus, drive, motivation, strategy, planning, and knowledge. I was asked to undertake numerous tasks and if problems arose I was to take care of them and always always ALWAYS make things work.

You can take dedication to anything the same way. If for example you dedicate yourself to eating better or try to loose weight. It too takes time, energy, focus and motivation. You need to remember that eating healthy and loosing weight does not happen overnight, just like a show taking place in the theater, you always have a goal in mind, for a theater it is the opening night of a show, for someone trying to loose weight their goal might be 25 pounds or a special occasion. However it must be noted that the dedication should not just stop after this goal has been met. I feel that dedication, especially for something that means a lot to you, should continue through life. I plan to work in theater after school and continue to study and possibly participate and someone trying to eat healthier or loosing weight should continue to improve their eating habits and lifestyle. I’m not saying that this should continue to the point of becoming an eating disorder or unhealthily underweight, but that they should remain happy and healthy as best as they can.

So I guess dedication is a process and one must remember to stick to the process in order to be successful in dedicating yourself to…well, anything. Your job, your lifestyle, your partner (ESPECIALLY your partner).

Oh…and because it has sort of been our theme for the week, I will ask for you all to be mindful in your daily processes.