New Year’s Day is always so fresh, so hopeful, so inspiring. It offers a new start with no mistakes in it yet. Seven days into the new year and I already ditched my long weekend run and the house is a mess.
The good news is that tomorrow can be just as new, just as fresh, just as inspiring, and just as blemish free as midnight New Year’s day when we watched all the fireworks go off, blew those funny little whistles, and yelled “Happy New Year!”
Tomorrow is a fresh start. Pull that funny whistle out if you need to and yell, “Happy New Day!”
P.S. In my defense, I was fighting a cold all weekend and we started remodeling our bedroom.
This year I have decided to keep it simple. I’m not making a bunch of resolutions that will inevitably result in failure by January 21. I actually only made 2 resolutions this year. I have a really LONG New Year’s to-do list, but I’ve decided to make 2 resolutions and work towards those resolutions above all the other to-dos on my list.
- Run a marathon in May 2010. My only out on this one is injury. If I do have to miss, I’m going to aim for Sept 2010.
- Develop the habits to keep our house no more than 15 minutes from clean by August 2010.
Neither of these are actually New Year’s Resolutions because I’ve been working on them both for a few months now. I must not be a very good resolutioner.
You heard it first here. Sunny is going to run a marathon and get her house clean. What was that about keeping my resolutions simple this year?
by Sunny Daydreame on February 4, 2008
in Uncategorized
Do you ever wish you had more hours in your day? I am always running just a bit behind. My day starts out with too much to do and ends with even more left to do. When you look at your day, how much time do you spend doing things with little or no relevance to your work or life goals?
We all have time wasters. You may not like to admit it, but some things are less productive than others. If you could cut out one irrelevant task, you could probably save 15 minutes a day. What would you do with an extra 1 3/4 hour every week?
Now take that challenge one step further? Do you have 3 daily tasks that don’t help you reach your goals? If you could cut out just 3–15 minute daily tasks, you would gain 5 1/4 hours per week.
Those 5 hours you gain could help you achieve your goals in work or in life.
To give you some help identifying your three things, I thought I would share my list:
- Excessive blog feeds. While I use blog’s to find inspiration for writing, I don’t need to read quite so many. I’m going to cut my subscription list by 10%.
- Dealing with excess clutter. Clutter is the stuff that doesn’t have a home. It’s what makes the house messy and makes cleanup take longer. While I can’t eliminate in in one step, I can get rid of a few things each night until I have decluttered my home.
- Nightly movies. Our local library has a great selection of movies. I just realized that we are watching a movie almost every night. I could gain almost 14 hours a week just by cutting that out!
What are your3 things?
