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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  What a strange question! 
Short answer: sometimes.
Long answer: Christmas means nothing to me. When I'm in the same country as my family, I celebrate with them, because it's important to them and I like spending nice time with them. When I'm not in the same country, I spend Christmas alone and don't celebrate.
I usually forget my friends and family members' birthdays, as well as my own. Not that I don't care, I simply often don't know which day exactly is today.
When I manage to think of it or get reminded, I celebrate with them if they wish to celebrate with me, or else I just send some love to them and thank the Universe that they travelled around the sun once more with me.
I usually don't celebrate my own birthday, but this year I did.
I have no clue why you want to know that, but I hope this answer was detailed enough?  |
thanks for your answer
if you are totally fulfilled and happy and achieving all your goals with your current non system of organization then please continue doing what you're doing
alternatively, if you are interested in possibly trialling (maybe a 30 day challenge) a simple and easy life management system, then you may find that it may benefit you greatly. it can be powerful and liberating to schedule the most important things in your life and to know that in each moment you are working on the most important thing at that time (instead of worrying if there's something else you should be doing).
in terms of your celebrating birthdays answer, again if you are happy with your current non system where you forget most of your friends and family members birthdays then that's totally fine and please continue with that
if however, you decide that you do want to call or send a card or email to some of your friends and family members on their birthdays and tell them how much you love and appreciate them, you could buy a calendar for $5 or use a free one online and take 10 minutes putting their birthdays on the appropriate day on the calendar. this will reminds you of your friends and family members birthdays. it's extremely easy to do if you're interested.
after a while you might even start putting other things that need to be done on particular days like exercise or belly dance classes
it's all up to you. you choose the system that works for you best.
for me personally, I can look at the calendar function on my mobile device and in 10 seconds see exactly everything that needs to be done today (usually around 7 things). Looking at this I know exactly what I need to do to keep my main goals moving forward and I can forget and not worry about anything else. It also gives me a LOT of free time to do things I enjoy and when I am enjoying my free time I do not have to worry about anything that I should be doing because I know there is nothing else I have to do today other than the 6 or 7 things on my calendar.
are you able to fully relax in your free time and forget all the dozens of projects that you're currently working on? or do you suddenly remember that you were supposed to book your belly dance class today or that you forgot to write something in your 2nd or 3rd ebook?
are you controlling your goals or are your goals controlling you?