Organizing on day 59 of 172 of giving up sweets

Organizing on day 59 of 172 of giving up sweets

I must admit that I am a cleaner outer. I’m always cleaning something out.

It’s really because at my heart I’m a messy person. Unfortunately.

Recently I cleaned out drawers in my kitchen and next I plan to clean out my baking ingredients cupboard because the lazy Susan I keep my spices in is not spinning around right. Like most messy areas of my home I find that there end up being things that are “misfiled”. Everything is a filing system, be it clothes, dishes, garage items, or baking spices. Not everything has to be perfectly orderly but small areas like my baking cabinet can get out of control and so need to be rethought. I like making things work smoothly and efficiently.

Like my mom always said, “A place for everything and everything in its place.”

The new year makes me conscious of the need to make my life more orderly. What things used to work smoothly but are needing rethinking? What needs to be made right? What things do I wish I would just go ahead and bravely do?

I feel that in my past I always had weight loss or eat better on the top of my list. Well, since I’m already doing those things on my 172 day plan, that leaves me room to move some other plans and goals up to the top of my list.

Recently I heard someone give advice not to share your goals because if you do you will have expended some important emotional energy on the sharing of the goals and that it will pull that surge of energy push needed to get you going on the goal. I don’t know if that’s right or not.

So, just in case, I will not share my goals; but what I will share is my accomplishments as I simplify and minimize all I can. And, furthermore, I plan to take inventory of my talents and abilities to see if I am best applying the gifts I have.

So in this new year I will share

• Simplifying my life,
• my sweets challenge,
• my paintings in progress,
• poetry and other writings,
• experiences homeschooling my daughter as we begin the process of getting her ready to take the SAT.
• And, of course information pertaining to visiting my husband in assisted living and the application for veteran’s benefits.