Laura Earnest

We all have multiple demands on our time. Some of these we choose, and some are thrust upon us. Some of them we choose; some we are asked to do, and some creep up on us through insidious means.

This time of pandemic has been a good time for examining our commitments. With many of our after-hours activities canceled, we now have the free time to examine those activities that had been taking up our time.

I've had pretty much all of my evening activities stop. The choir is not working together right now, and the quartet I sing with is recording parts separately, to have them mixed by our music director. Girl Scouts have been canceled for the year. The committees I sit on, meetings I attend and things like church services are now done online.

So why edit the commitments? Because eventually we are going to get to a point where we can be face-to-face, and these things will try to restart. The question is, do you want to restart them?

As we come out of the isolation made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have an unprecedented opportunity to shift our lives into ones of our choosing. Rather than taking things as they were, we can look at what we desire our lives to be and shift in that direction.

To that end, I am going to run a series of articles about the areas to look at and how to edit your life. Today I'll give you an overview of what the series will cover.

The times, they are a'changin. Life now in the details bears little resemblence to life a year ago. And it hasn't been easy. But even though things are changing, that doesn't mean there isn't positive among the negative.

I really didn't expect my life to change much during the social distancing/isolation of COVID. Other than knocking some forced socialization off my schedule. But I've done some things that I couldn't foresee, and have surprised those who know me. Here are some unexpected things I have done during the isolation.