Showing posts with label 2015 Goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015 Goals. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

SIMPLIFY: My Office Space

Making goals doesn't need to be fancy or complicated. You don't need a special work book or day timer, or lesson plan, or whatever else.

Sometimes all you need is a coloured marker, and a scrap piece of paper (from a Ramada Hotel notepad apparently...), and a goal.
This is my new approach to making goals. Make an "I WANT-I NEED" statement and answer the following: Where, What, How, When.

And then work on it every day. EVERY DAY. I think that’s the key. A little bit at a time, and a due date that’s just far enough away to be do-able and not forgettable.

This is my "before". This is my space that is not working for my life. But I have already made a lot of progress, and I am feeling buoyed by how fast things are changing and starting to look the way I want them to. And all the crap that I am getting rid of! Feels so good!


I still have some emotional blocks when it comes to my photos, but I am pushing through. And when I am having a rough day already, I don’t open those boxes!


And here is a progress shot. I got so much accomplished in this space last weekend. I every piece of furniture around, save one. And as soon as I laid down in my bed for a nap afterward, I knew I had made the right choice.

Can I just take a moment to ooh and ahh at the sunlight filling my room?

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

It feels good to have a goal again, and to know what I need to do to get it done. It is empowering, and it gives me the inspiration to DO MORE in other areas of my life.

I still have lazy Sundays where I just watch entire seasons of Veronica Mars on Netflix, but I'm okay with that too!

Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Simplify 2015

I have found my "One Little Word" for the year. Or rather, it found me.

Simplify

And not the math-related version of the word, 'cause that's the top Google results.

SIMPLIFY the process.

SIMPLIFY my expectations.

SIMPLIFY my house, my closet, my life.

2015 is the year of SIMPLICITY.

Oh man...this is going to be hard...I started and stopped writing this post a dozen times. I am not good at simplicity. I am good at drama, and over-complicating things, and over-analyzing things. And apparently I am rusty with my goal setting as well. But perhaps this tiny non-post of a post is for the best. I am, after all, trying to simplify things this year. Why make this more complicated? Why not just leave it here...

p.s. Apparently "One Little Word" is a trademarked thing. So you should check out Ali Edward's site for more info. Or whatever...