One new one is about trying to get myself to DO things that are icky, instead of procrastinating. (So many icky things do not get better, or go away, when ignored. Alas.)
My newest plan is to keep a list on paper. I've broken things down into little steps: take passport pics; edit passport pics, print passport pics; go pick up pics from photo place; fill out passport app; go apply for passport.
It's too early to tell, but I think it may be helping. (Passports applied for, dogs' teeth cleaned and toenails cut in prep for vet and then dogs taken to vet for annual checkups, appt made for my annual checkup........)
I'm telling you because keeping a list is such an easy thing to do. If it actually helps, it's a painless aid.......
Another of my projects is to do my best at "letting go" when there is nothing I can do about a situation.
I am a very hot reactor, and I feel a great deal of responsibility to ACT if I think there is any possibility that I can make a bad situation better. I spend a lot of time volunteering, I write letters to the editor, I make contributions to various organizations. I ... *try*.
There are, however, an awful lot of things I Just Can't Do Anything About.
Getting stuck in traffic. Having it rain when I wish it were sunny. You know what I mean.
I am trying to do better at just letting go of angst, when I can't do anything about it anyway.
This is really hard. But I believe practice helps, and I believe I am better about it. I believe I am better at recognizing and noticing situations that cannot be helped, and I believe I am better at ... letting them go.
For your eye candy today, I offer you this previously-unpublished shot of the beach, taken last October in Maryland. I am much more relaxed at the beach than anywhere else. Just looking at my pictures of that uninhabited beach is relaxing.....
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"I am much more relaxed at the beach than anywhere else. Just looking at my pictures of that uninhabited beach is relaxing....."
Exactly. Which is why I *will* be there someday for real. Then my "name" will be more than wishful thinking.
What I can't figure out is how to live at the beach only when it's uninhabited (because a crowded anywhere sounds like misery rather than relaxation).
One beach house in each hemisphere?
Ah, but there are beaches in Oregon that are nearly always uninhabited. Or nearly so. One couple on the beach a half-mile down hardly counts.
Someday I will talk you into a visit. It's ok, you can fly. Though you'd still be missing the glory that is the out-west roadtrip.
:-)
I'm sure I will visit, one day. When I come to pick up my sweet laid back blue babyboy. :-) Or Alice, when you're done with her.... ;-)
And I agree -- one couple half a mile away doesn't count.
So how far from a place one could live is a beach like that? How far to the nearest grocery? Library?
notes are superb - taking a note (excuse the unintended pun) from my and dad's book I see. You should, we are very sensible. Checking things off is very fulfilling.
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Sensible you both are. Not so sure about your father and the list-making....... It's not something I've seen him do.....
For me I don't think it's the crossing off as much as the breaking-down-into-tiny-bits that is useful..... That and the "gotta do this stuff" staring me in the face..... Somehow it's harder to ignore/put off when it's written down.
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