Self Planning is the first and last project I worked on for my Diploma presentation.
The very idea of planning myself as an ecological system was a major reason why I started on the Diploma path in the first place.
Two and a half years later, and it is still the most evolving, exhausting, unexpected, fulfilling, and challenging project I have ever worked on... myself.
Time is our limit. Living, consuming, creating, destroying. I try to live a full life, to contribute something to the world, to do good, to plant trees and flowers and seeds. Seeds of awareness, in myself and in others.
I can't try to pretend that after choosing to walk an ecological route in my life, all my inner debates are gone, and that my troubles are solved. But Permaculture has given me tools to confront these fears, mistakes, and problems.
Time is our limit, and we should plan it correctly with proportion and observation.
First to distinguish our real needs from programmed desires and false necessities. Then we can take control of ourselves again, and plan our life and daily schedule to be as vital as we can, to ourselves and our surroundings.
This page is an open heart of my self-development, during the time of my Diploma studies.
be kind... :)
Time is the Master
Time can be a Disaster
mind maps
The first map on this page explains how I got to be who I am, with life changing events and a more development in study and life style towards permaculture in the last two years. If you take a closer look on the geographic pattern, I'm kind of all over the place, and still not consistent. Add to that the fact that I'm a freelancer, and planning time for a nomad is harder, in my opinion. I'm not trying to use it as an excuse, I'm still pulling myself towards some kind of stability of one place... Maybe two. Most of my family and friends live in Israel, my lovely girlfriend is in Turkey, and my dream place is Portugal. I move quite a lot between all three, and travel inside those three countries too. So I try my best to follow some daily routine that I can do pretty much anywhere, like the 5 Tibetan Rites body exercise, the time that I go to sleep and wake up, limit my procrastinating, and more or less the times that I start to get hungry... Meanwhile, about every 3 months my macro time schedule changes completely.
In these maps I try to put some order in the chaos of time and place. By dividing life into 5 main sectors on one hand and putting it all on a zone analysis map, it clarifies to me what I want to have less of, and what I want to have more in my life.
Conclusions
-Most of the time I love my interesting evolving life.
-Sometimes I wish they could be more ordinary.
-My indecisive character is in the way to smoother life decisions.
-As years go by, I am actually pushing towards a more certain tomorrow (or at least trying to).
-I still have a long way ahead of me. No one can help me decide but me
-No one is responsible for my life but me.
-Apart from my location and rooting problem, I know WHAT I want to do in my future.
-I'm on the right track :-)
