Office and paperwork has never been my strong suit. It makes me flustered to no end, which is probably why I stepped away from the office-type jobs I have been doing for the past 13 years. I CAN do it, but I would rather not. Organizing is not my natural talent and takes considerably more effort than I would like; it’s like putting a round peg in a square hole, it fits, but there are better options.
I am not exactly in the financial position to hire someone to organize me right now though, so I am tackling the task and doing it myself. Just like everything else. It makes for a better learning ground that way anyway. Heck, I even self-taught myself how to do web design so I could do my own website! Yeah, I’m a keener…or crazy. You pick.
So it is Day 90 already eh? Three months gone; one quarter of my challenge completed. Boy how time flies! The first three months were a bit of a flop. Or were they? I was floundering around, constantly trying new things and ideas, and continually failing…yet learning. So in my books, as long as I am learning, it is all is good. And since it is review time, here is what I have learned thus far.
In my quest for change I discovered that trying to make BIG changes too fast doesn’t work; change requires patience and time, so I switched to little, incremental changes instead. So far, so good.
I also learned that change isn’t linear. What I mean by that is, when I focused on trying to change one thing at a time and make it perfect I would end up flopping. HOWEVER, when I work on each of the different things I want to change, and do one little thing consistently, then I find that the change is happening much more quickly. Change doesn’t require perfection. So instead of focusing on JUST food or exercise, or sleep, or finances and waiting until they are PERFECT before I move on to the next issue, I am improving all of them at the same time in very miniscule, barely noticeable ways…and also very effectively I might add! So far I have re-discovered the joy of cooking and cooking healthily, I am getting more sleep than before, AND I am working at fixing my finances…which is really at the root of everything. My gut feeling tells me that once I have the finances aligned, all the rest will follow suit too.
Let’s hope so!
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