52 LISTS | Week Eleven | LIST YOUR ESSENTIALS
- Water | to drink or to live by, it is essential to my every day.
- My children | even bad days are good because they’re with me.
- Take meds | be smart and don’t forget to take them!
- Order | to be able to indulge in fun and spontaneous opportunities, my home has to reflect order so I never descend into chaos again.
- Change | without it my life would be static and that would be awful.
- Learning | I am a voracious learner and spend a lot of time gathering up bits and pieces of things that interest me – from people I know and those found online. I have no idea what I’ll do with the bits and pieces, but they keep me busy.
- Finish the list | the monkey mind is going at 100% all the time. Remember to check the list.
- Excellence | is something I strive for and encourage my kids to endeavor to achieve, every day. Without that goal, what’s the point?
- Authenticity | and owning everything I say and do is essential to my character and keeps me grounded and focused.
- Sleep | without 7.5 hours I’m really cranky, must sleep by 10PM!
- Fail | and learn to accept failure for what it is immediately – simple mistakes to learn from. It really is the only path to Excellence.
- Make good food choices | even though some of them are frustrating now that I can’t eat seafood and other “good for you” foods :(
- Move more | time to stop, regroup, start again. Walk. Swim. Climb. Then do it again. And again. (See: FAIL above)
- Open | stay open to all of it. The good. The bad. Remember, it’s all in the interpretation. Really? The bad is just an opportunity to try something new or different.
- Patience | count to 10. And, if that doesn’t work, try 100.
- Empathize | flip it upside down and consider another perspective.
- Be kind | and if I can’t be kind, be silent.
- Take/buy only what I need | and no more. Forget collecting. Forget organizing. Keep possessions only to what I need and love.
CHALLENGE: I will honour one of my essentials by ...
Putting my house back in order, now that the break is over, so I can spend time doing fun stuff!
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