Into the new year
I’ve been trying to distill the myriad of ideas mulling around into my head into some semblance of a new year resolution or two.
I always come down to the same things – simplify my life, get fit, lose weight, stop buying fabric……
I guess I want to keep doing all of them. I particularly like simplify – and that has been my word for the last few years – it’s an ongoing process and especially when you like with 4 chaots as I do, if you don’t keep at it you vey quickly descend into deep doggie doodoo.
This year though I’m going to try to live a simpler and less stressed life. I’m going to try to do less multi-tasking too – because while multi-tasking gets things done, I don’t think it gets things done more quickly and I actually think I do better on the less stress list if I actually slowly finish things one at a time, one after another. I might even go back to the tried and tested ‘to do list’.
I really want some more hours in my day too – so I’m going to try hard to spend less time on the net. I hardly watch tv at all, but I think the time I save there is probably used up on surfing, blog reading and the like, so I’m going to keep that down to 20 minutes a day. I’m not sure if that’s possible, but I’ll give it a go. A lot of it is pretty much wasted time anyway.
And I’m going to run and quilt and knit and write……as a priority!
With that happy thought in mind I’m off to the sewing machine!
Happy New Year peeps. Have a good one!
Helen
January 2nd, 2014 at 10:33 am
Happy New Year – and good luck with all your endeavours!! 🙂
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:14 am
Happy new year to you too! Cut down my time in the WWW last year too! I guess it is more important to live in real live. On the other side I miss the contact to all the great ladies via Blog, Flickr etc. Hope to see you again… Kind regards Floh
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:23 am
All great resulutions, very recognisable!
Health, wealth & happiness to you and yours!
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:30 am
Have a wonderful and healthy 2014, Helen x
January 2nd, 2014 at 12:42 pm
Happy New Year Helen from Basel (this time). I wish you lots of time to yourself to do the things you love doing in 2014 and of course good health for you and yours. xx
January 2nd, 2014 at 3:15 pm
I’ve given up on resolutions. Mine were always the same as yours, but I was never resolved to follow up on them. It was just lip service. I find if I need to resolve to do something, I do, but I do it when it’s needed, not at the beginning of a year. I can totally understand your musings about multitasking, simplifying, living in chaos. When I get overwhelmed a to do list prioritised helps me too. I get great satisfaction is drawing a line through things when they are done. Hope 2014 is a great year for you and yours.
January 2nd, 2014 at 3:35 pm
Yes we all say the same thing every year don’t we – buy less fabric, sew more, lose weight – and yet I always seem to arrive on 1st January with a bigger pile of fabric and needing bigger pants! I agree with you about the amount of internet browsing time – sometimes it feels like I have just popped on for 5 minutes but suddenly half an hour is gone. I think I might try your 20 minute rule for starters – I will put the kitchen timer on and not go over my allotted time!
January 2nd, 2014 at 10:37 pm
Good luck with that! 20 minutes especially, I spend more than that reading the news at lunchtime lol
January 3rd, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Happy new year to you too! I am not sure I could manage with 20 minutes but I too am trying to cut back on the internet time a little.
January 4th, 2014 at 9:03 am
These are all very good goals. I should give up a lot of social media too.