I remembered #3 - What tickles you?
Those are great questions for life:
1) What makes you tick?
2) What tickles you?
3) What ticks you off?
Think about it for a while, you may be surprised what pops into your head.
I think that these were supposed to be in reference to organizing your home, but what a way to prioritize your life. Wow, if I could figure out and harness what makes me tick, spend time doing what tickles me, and avoid what ticks me off, what kind of person would I be?
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Okay - I just won a spider solitaire game so I am free to start blogging now. Something happens to me - whenever I turn on the computer I have to have a game going and I can't stop until I have won. It is what I do while I wait for the slow dial up to do whatever it has to do. It really is hard for me to end a game before it is over. What is wrong with me? Is there a support group for this?
Moving on.
I have been reading. I am at least one chapter into each of the books and love them all. Right now, I am stuck in the organizing book. It says that I should escape somewhere alone without distractions and develop a plan of attack. Well, I have been stalled here for a month. But I have been trying to answer 3 important questions we all should answer:
1) What makes you tick?
2) What ticks you off?
oh and now I can't remember #3, I would look it up but the book is up next to my bed and I don't know when I would return. But those 2 are a great start. I will figure it out later and let you know, if I remember. My 2 brain cells have not been playing well together lately. Maybe I need more sleep. (I say at 12:22 am)
Real Mom's . . . Real Jesus is great. I love it. The first chapter "The Truth about Serving" is all about taking the time to see what you do as a mom is serve and in order to serve well you need to let others serve you. Now this can get hard. The end of the chapter even gives some scenarios: "When your husband says, 'How can I help you' don't brush him away, but invite him to join you in whatever you are doing." I don't know about anyone else, but sometime I want to just do it, myself, because I should have it together enough to complete a task. But the reality is that I am not that together. Our MOPS steering team is going to be reading this book together this summer. So I am trying to not get too far into it. It is hard, because it is really good.
I have even started Chief Home Officer. It has become my bathtub book. A bathtub book is a book that stays in my bathroom, not for toilet reading - I know what you are thinking, I don't spend that much time on the toilet, who wants to linger there? It is in the bathroom for bath tub reading. I love baths, so I love to have an excuse to take one. Reading is a great excuse. It also helps the time go a little more quickly when I am giving a bath to my kiddos, who love to play in the bath. I always have a bathtub book, although when the Real Simple Magazine comes, I take a disappear to the tub with that. Okay, more than anyone needs to know about me. The Chief Home Officer is great, it is really dealing right now with that transition from work to home and how big of a thing that is. Some of you may not have felt this way, but I really did. My expectations were wrong as far as life at home and my needs didn't change. I still wanted to be busy and productive and I didn't realize how much all that people interaction fed me and what coming down off of it would do to me. Now I don't want to sound like I regret it, I never did. I just didn't realize what this adjustmetn would be. So this book is great and I can't wait to get into the real practical stuff of running a home and making it work for me. I hate days when I get to the end and wondered what exactly I did all day. Maybe a plan, I always had one while working, will help me.
Wow, a lot of nothing. Maybe I should take the time to blog individually about these books so I can really get my thoughts on each out. I know that there are a few people who will read this, but I am really blogging more for myself. It seems easier than journalling in some wierd way, but serves the same purpose.
Well, I should be folding laundry and maybe you should be too, but I am glad I did this. Hope all is well in your world. Love on those you love right NOW!!
Moving on.
I have been reading. I am at least one chapter into each of the books and love them all. Right now, I am stuck in the organizing book. It says that I should escape somewhere alone without distractions and develop a plan of attack. Well, I have been stalled here for a month. But I have been trying to answer 3 important questions we all should answer:
1) What makes you tick?
2) What ticks you off?
oh and now I can't remember #3, I would look it up but the book is up next to my bed and I don't know when I would return. But those 2 are a great start. I will figure it out later and let you know, if I remember. My 2 brain cells have not been playing well together lately. Maybe I need more sleep. (I say at 12:22 am)
Real Mom's . . . Real Jesus is great. I love it. The first chapter "The Truth about Serving" is all about taking the time to see what you do as a mom is serve and in order to serve well you need to let others serve you. Now this can get hard. The end of the chapter even gives some scenarios: "When your husband says, 'How can I help you' don't brush him away, but invite him to join you in whatever you are doing." I don't know about anyone else, but sometime I want to just do it, myself, because I should have it together enough to complete a task. But the reality is that I am not that together. Our MOPS steering team is going to be reading this book together this summer. So I am trying to not get too far into it. It is hard, because it is really good.
I have even started Chief Home Officer. It has become my bathtub book. A bathtub book is a book that stays in my bathroom, not for toilet reading - I know what you are thinking, I don't spend that much time on the toilet, who wants to linger there? It is in the bathroom for bath tub reading. I love baths, so I love to have an excuse to take one. Reading is a great excuse. It also helps the time go a little more quickly when I am giving a bath to my kiddos, who love to play in the bath. I always have a bathtub book, although when the Real Simple Magazine comes, I take a disappear to the tub with that. Okay, more than anyone needs to know about me. The Chief Home Officer is great, it is really dealing right now with that transition from work to home and how big of a thing that is. Some of you may not have felt this way, but I really did. My expectations were wrong as far as life at home and my needs didn't change. I still wanted to be busy and productive and I didn't realize how much all that people interaction fed me and what coming down off of it would do to me. Now I don't want to sound like I regret it, I never did. I just didn't realize what this adjustmetn would be. So this book is great and I can't wait to get into the real practical stuff of running a home and making it work for me. I hate days when I get to the end and wondered what exactly I did all day. Maybe a plan, I always had one while working, will help me.
Wow, a lot of nothing. Maybe I should take the time to blog individually about these books so I can really get my thoughts on each out. I know that there are a few people who will read this, but I am really blogging more for myself. It seems easier than journalling in some wierd way, but serves the same purpose.
Well, I should be folding laundry and maybe you should be too, but I am glad I did this. Hope all is well in your world. Love on those you love right NOW!!
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