Saturday, January 18, 2020
Today has been a good “me” day. I was sweaty until about 1:00 p.m. but am sweat-free and comfortable now. My significant other, Donald, took our seven-year-old, Mika and one of her best friends to a kid’s indoor jumping playground and out to lunch. They were gone for four hours and I got a lot of work done. I need to work Saturdays now that I have decluttering volunteers coming during the week. I have not fallen behind and working Saturdays keeps me far enough ahead I will not fall behind if an unexpected hiccup occurs during the week.
I edited three of Mika’s YouTube videos and uploaded and scheduled her Monday and Wednesday videos. I had received new social media photos from one of my clients and got them edited for posting. I got a video of a friend reading one of my journal entries, so I edited, uploaded and scheduled that video for my own YouTube channel. I feel like I have all my ducks in a row.
It is such a relief not to feel behind. In December I was editing, uploading and scheduling Mika’s daily LEGO advent calendar videos and blogs and I felt I always had too much to do. This month I do have lots to do because I have not yet scheduled my client work ahead for next month, but I had scheduled far enough into January I have not felt pressured to get all the work done at once.
This week I will be able to get social media for two of my clients scheduled into March and I will have a few small tasks my clients may send my way. I know the humility gods may convince every one of my clients to suddenly need large projects done immediately because I have written these words and the humility gods want me to be stressed out, but I am in a really good place today.
I am sure part of that good place is due to the fact that so much progress was made this week on my decluttering project. My soul feels better knowing so many items have left my house forever. I do not have a volunteer for the day I made available this week, so it will be the week after before all the progress that was made starts to be visible. I am still looking at stacks of storage buckets and piles of like items everywhere.
I have been making Mika try on clothes I pulled from the shed purge and since she is off school Monday, maybe we can finish trying them all on this weekend. Mika has focus issues when she does not want to do a task, so maybe not. It is cute to see her in clothes her older sister used to wear when she was little. I think about half of what I pulled out will fit Mika now and the other half can be saved for when she is a little older. I am hoping for approximately half of a storage bucket full of too big clothes; that is not too many to save.
I love days like today when I truly feel all is right in the world. Mika had fun with her dad and friend. I am still ahead on client, Mika, and me tasks, and I have made a lot of progress on my exceptional exit plan tasks this past week. This coming week I will get started on personal videos for my family again. I recorded three videos in December that I did not watch completely when I downloaded them to my computer, so I will review them and decide what is useable and what I will need to rerecord.
I will be home alone Thursday afternoon this week so that will be a good day to record more personal videos for my family. I did not brainstorm video content ideas while Mika was out of school and will be sticking to the easy topics for a while.
My piece of advice to you is to bask in your internal happiness when you can. It is not often I reflect at the end of a day about how nearly perfect it was. My day was good because I took the time to think about my accomplishments and allowed myself to be proud of the progress I have made.
Until next time,
Susanne
P.S. (written May 17, 2020) We ended up with one completely full storage bucket of too big clothes to keep.
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
Today has been a good “me” day. I was sweaty until about 1:00 p.m. but am sweat-free and comfortable now. My significant other, Donald, took our seven-year-old, Mika and one of her best friends to a kid’s indoor jumping playground and out to lunch. They were gone for four hours and I got a lot of work done. I need to work Saturdays now that I have decluttering volunteers coming during the week. I have not fallen behind and working Saturdays keeps me far enough ahead I will not fall behind if an unexpected hiccup occurs during the week.
I edited three of Mika’s YouTube videos and uploaded and scheduled her Monday and Wednesday videos. I had received new social media photos from one of my clients and got them edited for posting. I got a video of a friend reading one of my journal entries, so I edited, uploaded and scheduled that video for my own YouTube channel. I feel like I have all my ducks in a row.
It is such a relief not to feel behind. In December I was editing, uploading and scheduling Mika’s daily LEGO advent calendar videos and blogs and I felt I always had too much to do. This month I do have lots to do because I have not yet scheduled my client work ahead for next month, but I had scheduled far enough into January I have not felt pressured to get all the work done at once.
This week I will be able to get social media for two of my clients scheduled into March and I will have a few small tasks my clients may send my way. I know the humility gods may convince every one of my clients to suddenly need large projects done immediately because I have written these words and the humility gods want me to be stressed out, but I am in a really good place today.
I am sure part of that good place is due to the fact that so much progress was made this week on my decluttering project. My soul feels better knowing so many items have left my house forever. I do not have a volunteer for the day I made available this week, so it will be the week after before all the progress that was made starts to be visible. I am still looking at stacks of storage buckets and piles of like items everywhere.
I have been making Mika try on clothes I pulled from the shed purge and since she is off school Monday, maybe we can finish trying them all on this weekend. Mika has focus issues when she does not want to do a task, so maybe not. It is cute to see her in clothes her older sister used to wear when she was little. I think about half of what I pulled out will fit Mika now and the other half can be saved for when she is a little older. I am hoping for approximately half of a storage bucket full of too big clothes; that is not too many to save.
I love days like today when I truly feel all is right in the world. Mika had fun with her dad and friend. I am still ahead on client, Mika, and me tasks, and I have made a lot of progress on my exceptional exit plan tasks this past week. This coming week I will get started on personal videos for my family again. I recorded three videos in December that I did not watch completely when I downloaded them to my computer, so I will review them and decide what is useable and what I will need to rerecord.
I will be home alone Thursday afternoon this week so that will be a good day to record more personal videos for my family. I did not brainstorm video content ideas while Mika was out of school and will be sticking to the easy topics for a while.
My piece of advice to you is to bask in your internal happiness when you can. It is not often I reflect at the end of a day about how nearly perfect it was. My day was good because I took the time to think about my accomplishments and allowed myself to be proud of the progress I have made.
Until next time,
Susanne
P.S. (written May 17, 2020) We ended up with one completely full storage bucket of too big clothes to keep.
Please check out my GoFundMe page.