You know, I think I'm having a crisis of faith: in me. I've been feeling unsettled for a while but I woke up this morning and literally had a huge epiphany hanging inside my head. I need to simplify my life. I feel like I spend 90% of my time spinning my wheels about nearly everything in my life from relationships to work to my home to cooking to writing to dieting....everything. Simply everything.
I've decided that over the next few weeks I'm going to really overhaul my life starting with my environment and my attitude. I need less so I can be more. I look around my home and it's making me crazy right now how the closets are busting with stuff I don't need and my head is constantly filled with so many things I want/need to do that it's like a perfect storm inside my head all the time. I have trouble sleeping most of the time because I can't shut my brain down. My "To-Do" list is FOUR PAGES---TYPED!!!!!
That's IN-SANE!!!! It's all nuts.
I'm going to take a little journey for myself here and in it I'm going to try to throw overboard all the things that I don't need, don't use, never get around to, don't enjoy...and I'm going to blog it all just for the fun and craziness and to see where I am and what I've changed by next year.
You know what started this all, I think? Christmas. No, it was before that. The NICU. Knitting for the NICU is something I am passionate about. I do it because it's good and true and the best of me and because I like that the only thing I get from it is the joy of seeing those little cute noggins, warm and cute in something I made with my own hands and a dollar's worth of yarn.
Then Christmas came and all of my gifts were hand-made this year. Just an experiment but one of my favorite Christmas's ever as far as gifts. I had no anxiety over sales or "the perfect gift" or spending too much money like I always do. To buy a gift requires so much less thought than to pick a pattern and yarn or supplies and invest yourself and your time in making for someone else. I found that the three months I spent knitting afghans for my sister and Aunti I thought of them constantly, tons of great feelings and memories were always in the front of my mind. With each little pair old-fashioned slippers I made I imagined my cousins and nieces with warm little toesies this winter. With each camouflage hat I knitted for my brothers and Dad I thought of our mother and all the hats, scarves, and sweaters she made for us growing up and I remembered so many things I loved about her.
I liked those good feelings and I want more of them.
I want more simplicity, more purity, more time for what I love and what I truly need. And I'm going to start today. I'm making more time this year for a wonderful friend whom I used to see almost every day for 10 years and then we changed jobs, moved on with our lives, and we rarely saw each other a couple of times a year for the next 10 years.
I think, starting today, I'm going to rededicate myself to focusing on the best in my life and making time for the really important and spending less time spinning my wheels on the trivia.
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You know, I think I'm having a crisis of faith: in me. I've been feeling unsettled for a while but I woke up this morning and literally had a huge epiphany hanging inside my head. I need to simplify my life. I feel like I spend 90% of my time spinning my wheels about nearly everything in my life from relationships to work to my home to cooking to writing to dieting....everything. Simply everything.
I've decided that over the next few weeks I'm going to really overhaul my life starting with my environment and my attitude. I need less so I can be more. I look around my home and it's making me crazy right now how the closets are busting with stuff I don't need and my head is constantly filled with so many things I want/need to do that it's like a perfect storm inside my head all the time. I have trouble sleeping most of the time because I can't shut my brain down. My "To-Do" list is FOUR PAGES---TYPED!!!!!
That's IN-SANE!!!! It's all nuts.
I'm going to take a little journey for myself here and in it I'm going to try to throw overboard all the things that I don't need, don't use, never get around to, don't enjoy...and I'm going to blog it all just for the fun and craziness and to see where I am and what I've changed by next year.
You know what started this all, I think? Christmas. No, it was before that. The NICU. Knitting for the NICU is something I am passionate about. I do it because it's good and true and the best of me and because I like that the only thing I get from it is the joy of seeing those little cute noggins, warm and cute in something I made with my own hands and a dollar's worth of yarn.
Then Christmas came and all of my gifts were hand-made this year. Just an experiment but one of my favorite Christmas's ever as far as gifts. I had no anxiety over sales or "the perfect gift" or spending too much money like I always do. To buy a gift requires so much less thought than to pick a pattern and yarn or supplies and invest yourself and your time in making for someone else. I found that the three months I spent knitting afghans for my sister and Aunti I thought of them constantly, tons of great feelings and memories were always in the front of my mind. With each little pair old-fashioned slippers I made I imagined my cousins and nieces with warm little toesies this winter. With each camouflage hat I knitted for my brothers and Dad I thought of our mother and all the hats, scarves, and sweaters she made for us growing up and I remembered so many things I loved about her.
I liked those good feelings and I want more of them.
I want more simplicity, more purity, more time for what I love and what I truly need. And I'm going to start today. I'm making more time this year for a wonderful friend whom I used to see almost every day for 10 years and then we changed jobs, moved on with our lives, and we rarely saw each other a couple of times a year for the next 10 years.
I think, starting today, I'm going to rededicate myself to focusing on the best in my life and making time for the really important and spending less time spinning my wheels on the trivia.