The challenge for day 2 it to make a list of things that would need to happen in order to accomplish my dreams.
Okay…here goes my list.
1. Balance between work and leisure is hard….being an accountant and having tax deadlines where I need to work long hours and weekends make it hard to have a balance. This is the nature of my profession. During this time, all housework and any project is quickly abandoned. Then during the slow period I spend all my time catching up that then it seems I’m just cleaning house all the time.
– I could get a maid to clean house for me.
– I could talk to my boss about my hours again.
– I could change jobs…..get one not in the public accounting area. I do struggle with this. I wonder will the grass really be greener on the other side of the fence….or should I just figure out how to make my present job work for me.
2. No worries about money…having enough to pay bills, to save some and then to have a little left over to travel. I really should spend some on this since I am of the age that we are thinking about when to retire…..
– paying down debt.
– control spending by looking at a budget.
– plan a trip….we have talked about pulling our travel trailer through Canada to Alaska.
3. Organization….I feel that if I am organized that then I would have to spend less time looking for things and then I would have time for family, friends and projects….
– going through each room in my house and clearing out those items I no longer need. I have tried this in the past and seemed to run out of steam.
– finding a place for everything and putting it away.
– come up with daily routines to stay on top of daily cleaning chores.
– carve out time on the calendar to work on special projects…keep the appointment.
– figure out what to do with all those projects I have started and never finished…that may be a very long list by itself.
I probably have not been as specific in my list as I should be….I will say that just writing these things down does motivate me to think seriously about starting a plan to make something become a reality. It is sort of like a goal that is not reached because it is never verbalized so never any steps are put into place to reach the goal….
Reflections 