Saturday I wrote my most well received blog post to date. (You can read that HERE.) It’s been really exciting! Usually when I share a post it gets 2-5 likes. That’s right TWO – FIVE. This one got over 60! and several people took time to tell me they enjoyed it or that it touched them.
It was awesome to get all of that LIKE love but I couldn’t figure out what I’d done to make this one appealing.
We were all in the living room later that night and Jason said, “Do you know what happiness is?”
I quickly replied, “2,000 views on your blog post!”
He was actually referring to family time, but whatever 🙂
When thinking about why this post was embraced and the others go mostly unread, I decided it was because the picture and title I chose made it look like Jason and I might be Moving On from each other. And so I’ve decided that all future blog posts will be teasers of some sort.
Thanks to all of you that read, liked, commented and shared that post. That really was a treat!
I feel like there’s a lot of pressure in writing subsequent posts now. I sat down for an hour or two last night and tried to write something worth reading. I got nothing.
I sat down again this morning about 9:30 and threw out some thoughts that will EVENTUALLY be posts but it’s just not happening yet.
It’s 11:30 a.m. and I’m starting to freak out a little. I was supposed to go to work this morning but I called out in order to have more time to get our stuff ready to move. Instead of organizing, I’m obviously writing.
Thankfully Jason is out “adulting” so I can finish this post, get dressed, and appear to have been working hard by the time he gets home. Unless one of you talks, he’ll never know.
It’s no secret that I’m unorganized. I’m literally running out of time today. It’s decision time. Will I sit and continue to let time slip by or will I wrap these thoughts up and move on to the next task?
I’ve made a decision. Here are my TIME TO WRAP IT UP thoughts.
- No guilt. It’s 100% okay to do something enjoyable, whether or not it makes a larger contribution in some way or produces an income. If it contributes to your personal happiness, that is MUY IMPORTANTE! Nurture yourself. Buy and read that book. Watch that movie. Go out with that group of friends once a month. Take that class. Take time to write. Be good to yourself. It’s been said many times by many people that taking care of yourself allows you to be there MORE for others. I can vouch for that.
- You matter too. YOU wouldn’t deny ANYONE ELSE the right to take time for themselves; time to relax, to create, to soak in life. YOUR need for that time is ABSOLUTELY as important as theirs.
- Think about the BIG PICTURE for the day and find a balance. – What is the feeling you want to have at the end of the day? How do you want to use your time? Make a plan and go for it! Don’t forget to do nice things for yourself too.
If I think about my day at this point (I’m embarrassed to say what time it is now) and what I’d like to accomplish, then I know what I need to do to make it happen. I can take an honest look at what’s most important to me for the day, when I think about the feeling I want to have when I go to sleep tonight. It might mean I don’t finish this post right now. I know making progress on the house would FEEL GREAT. I know that if I don’t haul butt upstairs and organize, then while I’m at work tomorrow and Jason moves stuff over to the new house, he gets to decide what gets moved and what gets tossed.
Uhm…yeah…gotta go!
I really enjoyed reading your responses to the last post so let’s do that again 🙂
What is it you love to do or would love to do more of? Are you good about making time to do it? Leave your answer here or over on Facebook.
