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Saturday – Changing Habits

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It’s a warm Saturday morning at 23℃. Yikes! It’s 35℃ in the greenhouse. The shade is down, the vents and the door are opened. It’s almost noon. I’ve been a busy beaver with just a small spell of wasteful scrolling. Today it was on Dick York of Bewitched and on how to break bad habits. So it wasn’t all wasteful. Some good came out of it. What caught my eye on breaking bad habits was an article from the Economist. Of course I couldn’t access the whole thing, not being a paid subscriber. Still one sentence saying small rewards and a change of scenery can help. I have to keep that in mind as I tranverse through the merry month of May.

Changing habits can be a good goal for me this month. There’s lots of good tips online besides the ones from the Economist. I will make it easy. I will make it simple. I will give up perfection. Good enough is good enough. It will be my mantra this month. I’ve started May and today on the right foot. I haven’t dropped the ball. Still here, encouraging myself one slow step at a time. I’m not procrastinating as much. This morning I’ve changed the bedding. It’s all washed and hung up to dry. I’ve dust mopped the floor. I’ve cleaned up a small corner in the backyard. Lunch and dishes all done. Good enough for now. Looking forward to an art show later this afternoon. It’s a good reward.

THE HUNT FOR TOOLS

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It’s another new day, another blank page to be filled as I please. But I am hampered by emotions, memories and habits of the past. They are a burden and not easily cleared. Though I want to let go and move on, I’m a bit stuck on my old treadmill. I’m on a hunt for tools to help me. 

The first one that I thought of is choosing a word for the year. It was introduced to me by Susanna Conway in her Unravel Your Year workbook. It hasn’t worked well for me in the past because I don’t do anything past choosing a word. It is a bad habit of mine. I don’t do the work after making the decision. Another bad habit is when I come to a difficult part, I am unable or not willing to push pass it and I stay stuck. Changes and learning new ways of doing and being are hard. I am now trying to rectify it. My word(s) for 2023 are simplify and good housekeeping.  

Nothing stays the same, no matter how much we like them to or how hard we hang onto them. And I do the both of them, tooth and nail. What happens then is my head is overflowing with stuff as well as my desk, computers, cupboards, closets and whatever that can hold stuff. I haven’t been up to par with cleaning and maintenance. My head and computer are somewhat broken. My iMac is still updating from yesterday. I hope it works after everything is done. As for my head, I hope it clears as I clear my outer space.

I have to keep things small and simple in order to succeed. My iMac has finally finished updating. It did not correct the missing info icon on my WordPress Add New page. But it did knocked out my Pages, Numbers and Keynote. They are no longer compatible with my operating system as are their new versions on the App Store. Drat! Now I am afraid to update my MacBook in case it does the same. That’s for another day.

Meanwhile, I have done a little housekeeping. I found and deposited the 3 government cheques I have received over the last few months before they’ve expired. The fresh air and walk to the bank was good except for the time of day. It was after school and work time so there was heavy foot and car traffic. Teenagers like to walk together abreast, taking up the whole sidewalk. They do not have consideration to break apart to make room for me coming from the opposite direction. I like to give them a kick but I do not.

Enough complaining. To keep things simple, I shall end here. I’m happy to discover that my Pages, Numbers and Keynote still work in the Cloud. The miracles of technology.