Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Welcome back!

So one of the things I have learned is that nothing is as easy as it seems. Obviously, giving the time between the first post and this post I got busy, forgot the blog, lost the blog, and now I am back. Hopefully I will have something positive to post, we will see. If I recall correctly, one of my goals was to become more of a minimalist. I do not want to say that I failed, in that this is a journey and I have learned a few things along the way. Minimalism needs to be a daily practise. Like meditation, working out, eating well, and getting enough sleep. This is hard, because we have jobs and families and bad days. Occasionally, there is a bigger challenge thrown at us like illness, major career changes, or new babies, or elderly parents. So I start again. Please join me. So there are 98 days left in 2014. My goal is to do several things everyday for the next 98 days and see where I am on January 1st, 2015. I have a habit of being to ambitious at the beginning and feeling like I failed at the end of a project. This is one of the things I am going to challenge. To help do this I am going to relay on FlyLady.com pretty heavily. This is an organization, homemaking website that focuses on several things to ensure success. Firstly, stop blaming yourself, there should be no guilt. One of the motto's is "Jump in where you are". Ok, I can do that. Second premise is that "You can do anything for 15 minutes". Yes I can, how about you? Third premise is start small and build on that. Seems obvious but I tend to forget that point, I tend to assume that everything will take longer that it might actually take. Fourthly, the problem is not you it is perfectionism. That perfectionism undermines you. It sometimes does with me. I get lost in thinking about every possible out come and forget to take the first step. One of my goals is to change that. Which begs the question which project to take a first step on? I have a few. I am re-imaging my career, I have accepted a modeling job for the end of October so I want to lose some more weight and tone some muscle, I want to get out and do more things and more things with other people. there are a few more, see the challenge, I am a Gemini and like lots of stimulation. Focus. What do you want to accomplish before the end of the year? Who are you working at becoming? All the Best!!