My Journey

In the past when things were going well for me in one part of my life, I usually expect something in another area to go to pot. That way I could 'justify' stopping the good thing to fix the bad thing. Not this time. I have spent a lot of my spare time lately encouraging my good habits. I spend time learning about healthy eating, about exercise, and I spend time reading blogs. I am not prepared to give that up. However I have other areas of my life too. My family. No issues there. My work. I could spend a little more time concentrating and a little less time wondering what everyone is up to, but I am starting to balance this a little better. My house. There is the problem. I can honestly say that the current housework has kept up pretty well (other than last weekends clean washing is still not folded and put away LOL) but the catch up stuff is still, well, waiting to be caught up.

In the almost 9 years that I have been married, we have moved house 7 times. 7 times!!! And last year we got all the stuff that was still in storage in SA and moved that to NSW as well. DH has changed jobs 4 times, been out of work 2 times, and is now his own boss contracting his time. We also had 2 children, 3 interstate weddings, and 1 funeral. It's been a busy busy time. So I could be forgiven for not quite getting around to unpacking all the boxes...right? I could be applauded for at least having the tax done up to 1996...right? I actually have nothing to worry about...right? Mmmmmm Maybe not.

The unpacking of the boxes, sorting of all the paperwork, discarding of everything useless, the colating of every piece of paper necessary to do the tax, the making of photo albums for photos taken from 1991 onwards, these have been on my To Do List for a very long time. Every now and then I take a stab at it. But I felt it was boring, so my efforts were half-hearted and I did something else instead (ate probably!) Now, I know I have to do this task. But I also know that there is no excuse for chucking away all my good eating & exercise habits just to get in some extra time to do the boxes. I can do both. I can use my newly learned skills of planning and accountability to take stock of the situation and just get on with it. Like my one tree strategy with running, I should just take a one box strategy with unpacking. Don't give myself a deadline, don't worry about anything else on the pile. Just take one box. Empty it and move on to the next one. That just might work. Wonder what I might find - the possibilities are endless ;)

Posted by Margaret on Friday, June 17, 2005 at 8:20:00 am | Permalink