HAVING SOME THOUGHTS

AS THIS YEAR ENDS AND ANOTHER ONE BEGINS, I'm easing into 2021. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine a virus like what we have had invade our world in 2020.  I know that death is a fact of LIFE and we do not know when it will knock on our door. With that in mind, I have given much thought about what I will leave behind before it is my time to depart.

I have thrived to be organized and after our fire, I continue spinning my wheels.  Even today four years later I am dealing with details and things that still need dealt with.  I seem to have flopped at getting back on my feet.  A part of me wants to liquidate much and get on with LIVING a simpler LIFE.  I continue working on this.  

Getting where I need to be or near where I think I should be is out there beyond the rainbow. Here I am today and thinking about tomorrow.  Still with current events and LIFE in general, I have a new found courage to forge ahead and get 'er done.  This gives me courage to turn loose of more things.  It is empowering.  Quickly sort through old papers.  Keep, copy, pitch.  Keep, copy, pitch.  Keep, copy, pitch.  In over my head and slow.  

I'll spend my week taking down CHRISTMAS decorations except the tree and front door decorations.  Later in the month.  Slowly starting the new year as New Year's Eve is Thursday. We will have a quiet evening.  Red hots and peanuts, cheese and crackers, maybe a sip of wine. It'll be January before I know it.  JANUARY 2021.

WORD OF THE YEAR WILL BE  SIMPLIFY!  

The coming year, I'd like to exercise more, eat gluten free bread, continue to downsize, read through the Bible during 2021.  Organize like mad.  Keeping it simple.  Really, really simple. Courage to downsize my closet.  Clear out Nic-nac stuff.  Shuffle and shift.  May I not hold on to too much.  Simplify and smile.

Like I said, what will be left behind when I pass from this world?  What will be?  What do I need while I'm alive and what will I need to part with while I'm still alive?  I have been so blessed.  I am blessed.  I chose Jesus many years ago and have been striving to live LIFE as I should.  Still there is always room for improvement.  I cannot be perfect, but am being perfected.  What we are allowed to see may take a life time to see.  I am not striving to be perfect in this imperfect world. I am striving to be.  You do not have to be the best at what you do, but you do have to be.  Be.  

I'm not giving up, but I am changing.  Once more, this is the day the LORD hath made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.

X♡X Simply wonderful, 

d

    

Day Twenty One: How To Simplify And Forget About It

Day Twenty One

How to simplify goes far beyond being organized.  You can be the most organized person on the planet and still be so tightly wound that you have trouble breathing and walking straight.

  Forget about it...who's walking when one is always in a fast trot.

Believing that being organized has its advantages making daily chores more efficient?  It has been an ongoing process for me to organize and coming of age to simplify.  It's gotta be more of an attitude than anything else.  People can have virtually nothing in human possessions and still be such complex people that no one can figure them out.

I'd venture to say that to simplify, one must dive into it head first and come out a new creature.  Surely it's a process of letting go and grabbing onto a different philosophy.  One of not caring so much about so much to being less attracted to the way of the world.  Surely one does not have to be a simpleton to be living a life of simplicity.  

Is simplicity a pipe dream or can one really arrive and call it good?

How do you simplify?  Have less to do with a carefree attitude. 

Do you get rid of multitudes of things so that what you do deal with there's less to deal with?  Do you have lots and just know what to do with everything so there's less time spent on dealing with things?

Is simplifying a matter of having one's priorities in order and not associating with the outside world?  Do we streamline our attentions toward certain activities and focus on certain priorities or do we hang loose with little commitment?   Is it all of the above or altogether different?

More than an attitude or lifestyle?

What does the good 'ole dictionary say about simplifying?  

simplify  

verb (used with object), simplified, simplifying.

1.

to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier:

to simplify a problem.

That sounds pretty clear.

Sounds like we have to take action and do something in order to simplify.

To make less complicated and easier.

Doesn't LIFE seem so complicated at times?  I have to pray a great deal and discuss issues with Our Lord and He always listens.  He's the best counselor ever.  

To make LIFE easier I know I have to simplify and that means I have to put into action a way to make LIFE easier.  

21 ways to simplify!
1) Have a file system for your important papers that you need to keep.

2) Have a simple schedule of what needs to be done to make the day run smoother.

3) Take time to pray and think every day in a quiet place.

4) Have less to do in the day and enjoy what you have to do.

5) Less clothing in the closets and in drawers to care for.  
6) Less clutter to dust.  
7) Being organized is important, but so is having a forgiving spirit when messes are made and there will be clean-up.  
8) Our attitudes must be in a correct gear to make our HOMES a more pleasant place to be.  
9) Perhaps we should be more pleasant to be around...less hurried.  
10) FREE YOURSELF UP SO THERE IS MORE OF YOU TO BE THERE FOR LOVED ONES THAT NEED ATTENTION AND TIME.

11) It's my belief that if I have everything organized, a place for everything and everything in its place that this will help ease my mind of where did I put that thing.  This will help streamline effort and have my energies be put to use on far more important issues than not knowing where such and such is.  Amen and amen.

Please help me out here.  Fill in the blank.

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How to simplify?  IN A NUTSHELL:  Take action to have a sweet and calm spirit, be organized and lighten the load of responsibilities by limiting activities that you do not need to be a part of. 

How to simplify?  


Take action and follow through with it.

Perhaps I can,

d