A move, overseeing the condo until its sale, commuting to and from the city, numerous home renovations, more visitors and travel than I can probably count, 3 wildlife encounters in the backyard, the start of a new business, two new vehicle purchases... Quite a few big and busy things in there. Not to mention the day to day life demands and the unpacking and settling process that seemed never ending. I would be lying if I said I handled all this as well as I had hoped to. To many on the outside, they reminded me that Rome wasn't built in a day. Which is true; I didn't HAVE to get everything done in the first six months or year that we lived here. Maybe my goals were a little too lofty. The reality is that we have gotten a lot accomplished in the first ten months of home ownership. But my over-ambitious self also recognizes that we had a lot of days we could've done more.
We would some weeks be cranking out projects left and right. And other weeks, the to-do list would sit untouched. And while I'm still not completely comfortable with this, I'm trying to learn from it. If we spent every waking moment working on house projects, we would have very little time for anything else. There are other things that are important to us too or require our attention. Things like lawn care, laundry, errands, cleaning, cooking, working... all those things have to happen. The family cuddles, the playing in the back yard, the going on dates, the watching our favorite shows together... all those things are where memories are made, and they deserve to be where some of our time is spent. But what about the other things? What about the things we want to do, yet always take a back seat and never seem to get their time in the spot light?
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You know what I'm talking about. The "I wish I had time for" list. The things you have good intentions of doing, but somehow you run out of hours in the day or days in the week before they get done. So moving towards 2017, I'm trying to reflect on all the things I wish I had done more of this past year. You might already know how I feel about resolutions - I talked about it here last year. BUT, just like last year, I have some goals I want to achieve. And that word *want*... I really shouldn't use that. I WILL achieve these goals. While we can't predict everything that might come up or take us off guard in life, we are in control of our own success. As I look back on those goals from 2016, I'm honestly not real thrilled to admit that the first two are ones I failed at. Part of the success though of my forth goal I had listed, Focus on the Positives - Develop from the Negatives, is that my failure in two of those categories was forward failing. They weren't things I've given up on. They aren't things I am giving up on now. They are failures that only leave me seeking more and pushing forward to conquer them. So tonight, I'm making my list of things that I want to make a priority in 2017. I'm writing them down, I'm committing to them, and I encourage you to do the same. A really special person once said to me, "If it matters to you, you'll make time for it." And she couldn't be more right.
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