IMAGINE A PHOTO IN THIS SPOT - i cannot get blogger to download a photo for the life of me....
Welcome 2013
I am ready for a New Year...
As usual I am one the many who has made promises to myself for the coming year.
I really want to focus on those promises and constantly use them to steer my course throughout this year to achieve my goals. I am sure I will go of track - we all do - but the quicker I revisit my promise to myself and veer back to the path I have chosen for 2013 the more chance I have of success over the coming 365 days.
The first thing I want to do is be KINDER to myself and I believe that I will automatically pass on to others in my life more KINDNESS just be being KIND to myself. It's okay to stumble. It does not mean to give up. Forgive and move on. That is the advise I give to others and I forgive them so much easier than myself. This year of 2013 I want to be kinder and forgiving to me....
DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY - I got given a lovely little notepad from my sister for Christmas and this is the first one that I have started recording daily AT LEAST ONE thing that I choose to do differently that day. I have been doing this since the 26th December and have a few pages filled already. I just wanted something that made me aware of my choices and remind me daily that things don't change unless I change my thoughts and actions. I will share these each day... I believe that if I just focus on doing things differently on daily basis that new habits will form and old ones that are of no use to me will fall away.
As part of being Kinder to myself and choosing new ways of doing things I plan on incorporating a new vegan/raw food recipe into my life every day of this year. I like a saying that I heard on "Hungry For Change" that instead of focusing on what wrong food you are putting in your body, you are best of just constantly putting good food in and in the end you just don't have the room or inclination to put the bad in any more. I have been doing this over the past month or so and it works.
YOGA - daily.
I love cooking and Mick loves the fact that it is like a restaurant every night or lunch time. I will share these recipes on here as well. That way they are recorded for me to use again as well. I have one for each day of the new year so far. Just have to catch up on sharing them.
And last but not least - this is so typical of New Year talk that I hesitate to share but I have to. I do not function well in mess and clutter. I get annoyed quite easily when I cannot find something that I go to use. I am not a full on minamalist because I like a bit of homeliness around me as well. So the word I am looking for is ORGANISE. I have a tiny little house that serves Mick and I just fine but it is small and needs less stuff in it. . This ORGANISE is in all areas of my life and each day I want to record something that I organised, sorted or decluttered.
WORDS for 2013
KINDNESS
DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY
RAW/VEGAN
YOGA
ORGANISE
Cheers, Wendy
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Monday, December 3, 2012
Last night I got to thinking and having to chat to Mick about time wasting and where precious hours and minutes disappear to. We talked about all the things that we wish we might be doing while we do other things. I know that we cannot spend every waking hour doing only the things we want to do but I do think we waste a lot of time dilly dallying around with stuff that just isn't important - well at least not at that moment.
I thought about what I would like to be doing most of the time. I asked myself the question of what do I do that makes me feel good, that I really enjoy, that I can spend hours on without me going of to other things.
For example gardening is one of these things. It never used to be. It is quite new in my life actually. It has grown over the past few years since we moved to this property and I am gradually spending more and more time outside in the yard.
I thought about all of the time we spend doing things in the yard or around the house and the very unbalanced proportion actually enjoying it.
I would like to take time each day to really relax in our place - read a book under a tree - sit in the beer garden and actually have a beer - have a cup of tea in the early morning light.
I got an email newsletter today from the website I follow - see below - and this months challenge is to have some good old fashioned fun. Funny because Mick and I decided that we are going to ask some friends over for a games night - we like Poleconomy and it is so much fun. So I will list throughout this month when I remember to about what old fashioned fun we get up to.
Simple Savings website
December is Old Fashioned Fun Month!
Your goal this month is to find some real people to have some real fun with and have a ball! Here are some things you can do this month:- Call a friend and make a Christmas cake together
- Play a game of cards with someone
- Buy bulk wrapping paper and wrap up Christmas presents with a friend
- Go for a walk with family/friends
- Cook biscuits with someone
- Invite your neighbour over for a cup of tea
- Volunteer to help a charity
Just two of the Pots I painted recently
Hot weather yesterday called for a cool drink - freshly juiced orange and pineapple juice with icecubes - just the thing.
Everything is just so dry and brown and crunchy - The block still looks good though - Mick fixed the little bridge across the gully - safe to walk on again.
Watering the hanging pots in the beer garden as the sun sets
Tomatoes, Rocket, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Basil
Lots of bees in my garden but no possums - seems to be working so far.
Chalkboard sign on a store front.
This is a tablecloth I made from a heavy piece of green scrap fabric and a bandana with watermelons on it. I think it turned out great.
Cheers, Wendy
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