Week One of Project Real Life focuses on the idea that cultivating a good life is beginning with the end [result] in mind. I've spent a lot of time over the weekend thinking about what that means for me - what I want for myself, my family, and my home.
I want a home filled with love and joy (which we have), but I want it without the guilt hanging over my head that there is still laundry to be done or dishes to be loaded into the dishwasher (don't have that so much, lol). I want those things to already be done, and I want to have a system in place to ensure that is how things start happening around here. There are other aspects of life cultivating that I am thinking about as well, but those are a little more personal and not for public consumption. At least, not yet. Who knows, maybe I'll need to pick your brains again ;)
Less stuff = less work. That needs to be my mantra. Well, one of them anyway.
However, back to the original point of my post -- I still need to figure out a way to better manage my time because I'll need plenty of it to work on purging the items I don't need as well as getting the everyday stuff done and making time for family (and, for me, too!). So, any suggestions? :)
First off Lesley ♥, when your little miss heads off to school, get that laundry done, maybe wash it all the day before, so when she leaves for school you come back in the house, crank some tunes up and fold laundry, make sure you put it right away so you don't leave it in the basket for another time and pick through it and then it becomes not folded. I usually do my dishes while the kids are eating breakfast and I do dishes once a day, sometimes twice, but I try to keep it to once, but depends on the day, like this morning I had no bowls for kids to eat cereal out of.
ReplyDeleteI try to get everything done in the morning, first thing, because I tend to have my most energy then, and also, it leaves time to do other things that I love for later in the day, when I tend to slow down a bit.
As for the too personal stuff, you can pick my brain about it in your next letter, which mine went out to you today, finally. And to warn you, I was real down, so I vented. But that are what friends are for correct? Things here have just got me baffled. Baffled I say. And yes, sift and sort through your stuff, donate it to a local homeless shelter, or Salvation Army, or even a local Red Cross for a local family in case something happens (fire, etc.), families in crisis could always use stuff.
I will let you get on with your day, now put some tunes on, and jam, and get your laundry folded :D
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and you can even dance around while you do it, no one is watching :D
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