Episode 118: The Joy of Missing Out With Tonya Dalton

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>I have often fallen for the trap of thinking that a new system–a new calendar, a new journal, a new app–was all that I needed to keep me organized and bring order to the chaos. </span> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>But all around me are piles of half-filled calendars, abandoned bullet journals, and long lost apps–the evidence of well-meaning systems that I started only to later abandon.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>I know that it isn’t a flaw in the systems that’s the problem. It’s my own lack of commitment to these systems that is the problem. I know this truth, and yet I still struggle to live in that place. It is so much easier to just blame the freaking system.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>In January we are inundated with the new year, new you message. It is a time when starting a new system for change is particularly alluring. And all this month we have been taking a different look at how change works. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>We’ve covered:</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/episode-114resolutions-without-the-hype/'> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>setting New Year’s resolutions</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>without succumbing to the hype, working through our challenges so that we can live a</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/episode-115-living-life-true-to-your-values/'> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>life that is true to our values</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, what Mr. Rogers can teach us about</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/episode-116slow-down-and-be-present/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'> slowing down and being present</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, and how</span> <a href='https://live-happier.com/episode-117spiralling-up/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>the concept of Spialling Up</span></a> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>can be applied to a life long of growth and change. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>I thought it would be n