do

I feel I am doing better at “do,” but now need to work at saying no! For a while all I was doing was saying no, and now all I seem to do is say yes! Need to work on balance.

However, I have had many positive experiences through just doing. I am not as fearful at work of trying new things, I just do them and change later if it’s not working out. There are a lot of things I’d still like to try in my personal life but not sure if I should be taking on so much. So like I said, will keep striving for balance :)

The good thing about filling my plate is that it’s pushing me to think about some of my other goals like “exercise,” because I have to get the stress release from it. Ironic that the more we do, the more we need to do :)

that’s been hanging over me and making me feel guilty. Did I want to start in on another project at 8:30 after gardening all day on the last night of the weekend? No. But I did, and they are done, and I feel much, much better and my poor friend will have chair cushions to enjoy on his porch again. Whew. A perfect example of “do.”

on a camping weekend with my girlfriends in July or August. That’s the first step.

to a state park that will be fun! We will go with some family members.

I realized I have actually been doing “do!” a little bit better lately. See, I tend to be a thinker/planner and not so much a do-er sometimes. But lately I have some “do”s to celebrate:

1. Neti. I bought a neti pot and have been trying neti. I got the idea, read a little online, went and did it.
2. Treats. Made treats for Xmas. Unfortunately the quality of every batch mysteriously went downhill. Can’t say what they were because of Lilyfairy ;)
3. Shows. Went to three shows this month. One of them I can qualify under the “do” goal – the other two were organized by other people.

I had the chance to go scrap, and I did it instead of sitting at home on my butt.

I heard about this teenager recently who biked from Minnesota to Washington D.C. to deliver a petition about a cause she loved. And I somewhat cynically but somewhat wistfully said to my BF, “That’s what I love about teenagers. They don’t know how hard things are yet, so they just do them.” Well, I started to remember my teenage years, and the things I’ve done since, and the things I haven’t done because I’ve talked myself out of them. I’ve been scared people would think I was strange or that the idea wouldn’t work out. Or I had a bunch of enthusiasm in the beginning of working out the idea and then panicked that if I went through with it I would have a lot of work on my hands. Or I haven’t been sure how to go about executing the idea because I don’t really currently have a lot of community connections like I did when I was a teenager. Well, when I was 17/18 and doing my Girl Scout Gold Award project, I just got on the phone. I got in the car with my troop-mates. We went. We asked. We self-promoted. Our project was successful. Why can’t I do the same at 29? What happened? So this is a goal about being brave and about putting my ideas into action.