This week I am thankful for.....restlessness! I am definitely a creature of routine, organization and established patterns. I do things methodically and I tend to get in ruts very easily - most of the time without even being conscious of it.
But every once in a while, I start to get restless......and I am agitated easily......and distracted easily.....and that usually means that somewhere deep inside my brain, a little switch was flipped that made me want to break out of the routine for a while!
Well, that is happening right now and I feel some big things are in store for me in 2011. I just adopted another wiener dog, I just bought a sewing machine last weekend (and I'm going to learn!), I have some small travel plans already, etc.
It's been about 2 1/2 years since I moved to Texas and I think the first 1-2 years were dedicated to getting settled, making my house the way I wanted it, meeting new friends, learning a new job, exploring, and just becoming comfortable with my new world.....But now that I have established friendships, my house is generally the way I want it, and I'm comfortable in my job........now I need more of a challenge!
I'm so glad that I made my 33-list in August. I refer to it often and I have now completed a bunch of items on the list and I have plans to finish the list by August 2nd of 2011. I even switched a few things out that really weren't things that I was dying to do and replaced them with things that were more of a priority. Really, the goal of the list is to entertain me, stretch me, challenge me, strengthen me, and push me....and it's doing its job! I am so thankful for this restlessness - it gets me moving toward things that I want to do instead of living a life of complacency!
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