I’m a tired girl who is barely getting her feet under herself post-steroids, so I browsed in my drafts and found this unpublished post from way back in October. If you could see my home right now, you would see that it is still relevant.
I was saying to my dad once, years ago, that it wasn’t that I wanted to be perfect. No, I was ready and willing to settle for being competent. What did he say to that? “The problem here is that you want to be competent at everything.”
I suppose that’s true in a limited way. I do want to be competent at what I consider Basic Living Skills. Oooh, that sounds like a curriculum! I think I shall design one. To get your BLS certification, you must pass the following courses:
Time Management 101 – Being on time, remembering appointments, knowing how long it takes to get from point A to point B, being aware of how many things can you cram into a certain block of time.
Paper Management 101 – Bill paying, filing, which papers to keep and which can be shredded, how long to keep newspapers and magazines.
Home Management 101 – How to make a meal plan and shop for it, how to cook, how to do basic chores (dishes, laundry, dusting and vacuuming).
Personal Management 101 – Healthy nutrition; exercise; personal finances; goal setting and achievement.
Of course, it all hinges on that last word: achievement. It doesn’t matter how much you know; it only matters what you can do. So to pass these courses, you have to actually accomplish each task. Repeatedly. Until they become ingrained habits.
Sign me up.
Daily Check-In:
- I’m grateful! that my Quinland-girl has been so self-sufficient this weekend. She is incredibly awesome.
- I’m lighter! I went to massage. AND to the store. AND out to get a sandwich with Q. I don’t know how safe it was for shaky me to be out on the snowy roads, but I got out there. Then I came home and curled up in a ball for hours. But I was out there today, under my own steam. So I’ve got that going for me.
This post being relevant does not sound like joy.
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