Posted in 2023, life, Writing

I Am Content

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

I had to think about what emotion I feel the most these days and it would have to be contentment. I usually relate everything to our business and my work there and this is no exception! For many years our remodeling business has been consuming because I oversee the operation of it. Clients, financials, and social media – three jobs that can be full time on their own.

Our office assistant of the last 1-1/2 years has taken over all of our customer service from the start of the project pricing phase, right on through to completion and that has given me the chance to BREATHE and really do what I want to do which is social media. Of course, I still have to do the financials and I can’t say I’m 100% gone from the customer aspect but 95% of it. I can now focus on setting up the path for success for our son as he takes over.

That has also given me the opportunity to leave the office before 5, go in after 8:30, take an afternoon off for some spa time and boy, when you can start thinking about yourself – what a world of difference it makes.

It feels good and I am content.

Posted in life

Perfectionism SUCKS

I need things organized and tidy and set right in front of me before I can move on.

All that leads to is spending my weekend organizing and tidying up papers and books and magazines and doing the laundry and cleaning and weekday meal prep and workout before I move on to something that I think of doing during the week.

Write a post about a family member on my other site? Oh no, I need to organize their pictures (and where is that favorite picture? Oh here! Oh, and here’s one for that other person, let me organize all my pictures first!) and research the dates and find other nuggets before I can move on to write.

By Sunday night, I develop that same pit in my stomach and ache in my throat that I get on Friday afternoons at work when I think of “all the things I DIDN’T get done during the week”.

I don’t know how to turn that off……

I say every week I’m not going to let it happen – I even went grocery shopping on Thursday after work in order to have all day Saturday to myself and yet, here I am. Frustrated with me.

What a double edge sword! One half needs the organizing and the other half is like “Girl! Take care of yourself!”

Ok – off to finish the laundry.