a month well lived.

A month well lived: Full of lively steps, bright outlooks, and unstudied moments.

Anthropologie is inspiring to me (and most women) in more ways than one, but this month, they featured a great saying on their website gave me much more than eye candy. I thought this quote was so appropriate for the way so many feel about 20Ten, so much hope, so much to look forward to, and a time to pick up the pieces and make something beautiful out of it. Not to mention, a great way to kick off one of my resolved attempts at blogging more.

It’s all too easy to get back into the grind of another month. There’s always the ‘getting-back-into-the-habit-of-work-after-the-holidays’ phase, which is often precarious, but this little note reminded me that in the midst of the business, I should focus on living life well.

I think living life well means doing the things that are “back burnered” by busy-ness. Breaking this down into months means that I now can focus on living those 28-31 days in the richest way I know how, and before you know it, I’ve lived 12 of those months richly.

It’s easy for me to get caught up in the big picture right now. And while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I sometimes feel as though I’m not living the day 100%. It’s easy to look at my calendar and see that I’m doing something or going somewhere almost every weekend and be stressed and tired already.

Living life well this month will mean being excited for the day, whatever it brings, and not seeing it as a checklist. And occasionally jumping up and down for no good reason other than life is awesome.