30 Days of Letters - 10 Years On

It was lovely to revisit this activity and how nice it was to spend time writing personal letters to some of the important people in my life. It wasn't that great to realise I haven't done it since - including not doing my parents' letters.

This activity was based on a short TED Talk from Lakshmi Pratury - you can read the original outline of the activity here. Below are the sketchnotes for the outline and reflection.

There really isn't too much to write in this reflection. It was a lovely activity that I felt great doing and the people who received the letters also enjoyed the receiving them. So, why haven't I continued to do it? Why haven't I at least written the ones I said I would?

I think the answer to that is time and focus - as with everything else in life. I haven't made a choice to focus on doing them, so I haven't made time to do that. Maybe I should do that... but I can't make promises about it. There is so much else going on in my brain and my world right now that I couldn't commit the brain space. Because the main thing I remember about this activity was the length of time it took for me to write the letters and feel happy they adequately represented my thoughts and feelings. Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on myself, but maybe I'm not.

Okay, enough for this one. Next time I get to reflect on the only activity I consider to be a failure - maybe that's why I've been procrastinating about the last two of these. I know I'm getting into some pointy thoughts and feelings.