Welcome!
I'm so excited to finally start this blog. I've always had a love/hate relationship with writing. I love writing but it can be incredibly difficult and scary. But as Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Do one thing every day that scares you." And here we go!
A little about myself. I grew up in a small town in Colorado with two hippie parents and a dazzling older sister. I have some incredibly fun memories from my childhood but I grew up without a lot of structure or stability. Now I crave structure. I love to plan, organize and systematize. I'm a mom of two young girls on Long Island with an incredible husband. I work in advertising and love to read and run (kind of).
Loving to organize, you'd think that life would be smooth sailing but I'm also a pack rat, indecisive and get quickly distracted. This can turn my fantastic 'projects' into bigger messes than when I started. Over time I've figured out how to work within my limitations and I'm hoping to share my lessons learned with you.
Lesson 1: You will ALWAYS want to do it less later than you do now.
One more addition to my list of 'quirks' is that I'm a procrastinator and it is the worst on a week night. It is 8pm, I've been going non-stop since 5 or 6am and the last thing I want to do after the girls are in bed is prep work for the next day. Why do it now when I could be relaxing? I'll surely have plenty of time in the morning. In hindsight, every single time it ends up being a bigger issue to do the task later than if I had done it in the first place. I will have even less time, even more to do and need to factor in obstacles I never saw coming my way.
Today was a perfect example. I'm training for a half marathon (Go Athletes to End Alzheimer's!) and was supposed to run 4 miles yesterday. My daughter had a Valentine's Day party in daycare and I was up late making fruit kabobs. I told myself, "Hey, you are going to have a hard time getting out the door in the morning with all the party snacks, Valentine's cards, etc. Plus, it might snow!" So I didn't go running. Today, I woke up early, got everyone fed and ready, was putting a coat on my youngest daughter and BLEEEEECK! She puked all over me. Surprise, surprise, she also had a low-grade fever. Oh, and it is -5 degrees outside with the wind chill. Guess who isn't going running today? This girl.
Point being, just do it now. Not necessarily a lesson I follow all the time but it helps motivate me to think about all the insane scenarios that could come up if I was to push the task off to another time. Plus, this is one of those things that makes you a responsible grown up. So I hear.
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