04 February - Home and the Lights Are Dimming
I am so awake this morning! Progress. I got right up and out of bed today. No snooze for me, because I left my phone - which is my alarm - on the kitchen table. A good move, and one that helped me wake right up. Other things that helped: I went to bed at 9:00 last night. I am home and slept in my own bed beside my husband. I am at home and as soon as I wake up I immediately start seeing things that I need to do, especially when I’ve been away from
my routine for a while.
The real help in waking up today came from the pile of mail beside my phone. There on the top was the electric bill, the one I forgot to pay! A little jolt like that (no pun intended) will help you wake up. At least they didn’t turn off the electricity on Joe while I was gone. “Why is everything getting so dark all of a sudden…?”
I have so many projects for February. Too many. I know it is too many, but I still want to get them all done. One thing on the list is to hang curtains or pictures, something I should definitely do since we’ve lived here now for two years and I have put up curtains in only two rooms and hung a total of two pictures on the walls. I guess that’s one per year: rather a slow rate of progress. I know Joe would definitely appreciate a curtain over the window above the shower. (It’s really not a priority for me; I’m only 5′4″. Heh heh.)
I have this tendency to wait on things
(procrastination) until I figure out exactly how to do them right (perfectionism). Procrastination + Perfectionism = Nothing Gets Done. I’m working on it. Imperfect progress realized is better than perfection imagined. I just have trouble remembering that sometimes.
Two principles for my life and home while I work on overcoming my P+P issues: 1) NO COMPARING. Comparison is never helpful; it just makes me think I can never achieve what I’m comparing myself or my home or my life to. I don’t see the imperfections of what or whom I am comparing myself with, so it reinforces that perfectionism tendency. Bad, bad, bad. 2) JUST DO IT. Sometimes we really do learn from advertising. Nike is right. (So is Yoda.)
And now I must go do something like breakfast.
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