2016 Theme - Just Relax, Breathe, and Let It Go...

While eating breakfast and sorting out my two planners for this year, I realized something.  I am constantly overwhelming myself and not just learning when enough is enough.  This crazy world today makes us feel lazy if we do not have lists of "to dos" and everything planned by the minute.

I just watched "The Intern" and realized that it is impossible for any of us to live this crazy schedule we make for ourselves.  Sure, we should make goals for us to attain, but make those goals reachable.  No one person can achieve World Peace, but you can achieve your own happiness and peace by doing smaller things.

So, I am not really taking the lazy route.  I simply want to make goals that are achievable, but refuse to overwhelm myself with impossible time lines.  It is not about procrastinating as much as how to prevent procrastination from occurring.  It is easy to push a goal off when one has overwhelmed themselves with lesser important goals.  That is when procrastination takes over and those things you really wanted to accomplish never get done.

So, as I sit here, I am just trying to work on my kitchen and get some perma-press laundry done for today.  The kitchen may take some time for figuring where to put most of my plastic ware.  I need to organize and place these items where they can be easily retrieved.  However, I am starting to like my kitchen a bit more.  

I bought an electric kettle to boil water.  Granted, I have a Keurig, but this kettle was amazing.  I put the water in it and it came to boil just before breakfast was done.  It allowed me to steep my tea while I finished plating breakfast.  Nice, hot water!  If I were to depend on the electric stove, it would have taken forever to boil - this is really cool!

However, I digress.  The point was that everything had a place and putting breakfast together was done with a great deal of ease.  That made me feel good.

I will work harder to stay off of Facebook and spend more quality time with the dogs, reading books, and taking more time to just relax and breathe.  It is important to have these pauses.  Better to stop and reflect before making a mistake.