Hi Everyone!! Happy Friday! It’s been over 2 months since I last wrote and I can’t believe so much time has gone by. I remember the first time I missed just one week of writing and I felt so incredibly disappointed in myself, then the next time it happened it seemed to get a little easier to let it go, and since then I’ve just been making up excuses in my head about how I’m too busy right now and I justified taking so much time off. I then of course kept just looking at the calendar and told myself “I’ll get back into it in the New Year”, as is the way with all New Year’s resolutions we make for ourselves, am I right?
Then I listened to a podcast this morning about procrastination and how the best way to unlearn terrible procrastination habits is to just try to change them a tiny bit at a time and how a major cause of procrastination is fear of failure or wanting to be perfect, therefore, avoiding something altogether if you feel like you won’t be able to achieve that perfection. Side note here I feel like I must say but I’m sure is pretty obvious…I clearly don’t think any of my posts are perfection, or even close, but I think there’ some truth to the feeling of putting it off because I felt like I couldn’t give my best effort or I wouldn’t be happy with the result.
As I thought about it, it reminded me of how I seem to also always say I’ll get back on the healthy eating and exercise wagon in January and then use that as an excuse to go off the rails with holiday eating until January 2nd (yes I do wait until the 2nd, not the 1st) and being that much more annoyed with myself when I step on the scale in the new year and seeing that I gained ten pounds in December.
So, although it is basically already the New Year (4 more days to go as I write this), I still feel like I’m getting a bit of a head start by posting this now, rather than waiting until next week. This is going to be one of my most imperfect posts yet, and I am okay with that.
Quick update on the state of my house. It is a mess…a giant mess. There are Christmas gifts everywhere, clutter has absolutely taken over, and I’m slowly trying to dig my way out of it. I’m feeling okay about this at the moment though. Yesterday I was feeling completely overwhelmed and spent the day eating cookies and worrying about how the heck I was going to ever get the house looking nice, but today is another story. I’m setting some goals and I feel good about it.
I’ll try to write some updates over the next few weeks about progress I’m making (hopefully) in terms of getting the house back in order and maybe/hopefully even better than before. It’s going to start with major decluttering and we’ll go from there.
I’ll keep this short and sweet for now so that I actually get it posted this time (true confession...I started writing this two weeks ago and was all pumped about truly not waiting for the New Year and getting ahead of things, but since then became too “busy” to finish it, so here we are). Anyway, I’m ready to take on the New Year and am feeling optimistic about 2024. I hope you all are too! Feel free to comment about any goals you are setting for yourself for the New Year if you like to have New Year’s Resolutions, I love hearing about everyone’s goals and may even steal one or two for myself.