HEY, world! It’s been several days since I last posted, and though I’ve not really got the time to share with you this morning, I’ll race through a quickie, because god knows I can’t leave you without time wastage for work on Monday, eh?
Welcome to week one of the Steff plan for total world domination… or at least taking back my life.
I spent my weekend getting myself on page for new happenings. I’m still not 100% ready to face the year before me, but I’m sure as hell getting there. I’ve gutted my place and I’m maybe two full days of work away from having this place look the way I’ve always wanted it. I’ve purge 20% of the belongings from my living area, and now, when my hallway has been emptied of the towers of crap I’m either selling or donating, then I have other closets and my bedroom to contend with.
I’m a firm believer that, if your home is in chaos, no matter what you do in your life, your life, too, will be chaotic. I’m reclaiming my life from the top down.
This week I now need to get back on page with diet and exercise, thanks to a) having bronchitis since Christmas, and b) having all the food baskets sent my way for holiday gifts, I can assure you there’s no diet left in my life, and I sure as hell haven’t been doing yoga. That changes tonight and tomorrow, though.
Saturday was all about me. Got treated like a goddess for my first real salon hairstyling in the last two years, thanks to perenially being broke off my ass before now. I bought two awesome, cute, trendy pairs of sneakers I love. And I went out all on my own to the movies and to write in a coffee shop. I flirted with a couple strangers, and had a pretty nice night without anyone’s company.
This getting-back-to-myself is happening a lot quicker than I would have thought. The haircut and shoes, you know, great start. As is returning to my old loves of writing in coffee shops, browsing bookshops, and wandering the streets at night.
Next weekend’s another leap of faith, as I institute the “getting social” part of my life back into full swing. Nice to see my master plan’s coming along nicely. I’ll try to write a more guided posting on what my actual plan of attack is in the next week or so, for anyone else wanting to change their lives from the top down.
Meanwhile… work beckons. Hope I’ve successfully wasted 3.4 minutes of your workday. Have fun with that. 🙂
Oh yes! Good hair and shoes will always make you feel chic …. they define you and give you an edge, much more so than buying new clothes. It sounds like you have tapped into a whole new source of energy these last few days. But what do you mean by ‘from the top down’? I don’t know why, but I usually think of change coming from the bottom up! Anyway, I’m looking forward to reading about your plan of attack, when you find time to post about it.
Top down: I suppose I think of things in kind of an intellectual/industrial kinda way. In business, when you reorganize a company, you’re best off doing it from the top down. That’s a total change. Get rid of the boss, then work your way down to the peons.
If you want to just change things up, you start with the peons. (IE: Hockey. Trade the players. They blow the season, get rid of the coach.)
I’m changing my life, not my shoes. I need to get my head straight on what I want before any real change can occur. Without direction, it’s just an incompetent flailing in the wind. I need to know what I want, how I’m gonna make that happen, and what groundwork needs to happen first.
Doing the mental shit’s been hard. The rest of it should be easier, but harder in actual work/effort terms. More fun and rewarding, though.
So, yeah. From the top down. Build from the ground up, change from the top down. In my universe, anyhow.
(PS: This, obviously, is the groundwork phase.)
For some odd reason I tore apart my closet and came up with a big garbage bag full of stuff to get rid of.
Man, I felt great after that.
There’s all kinds of chaos at my place, but whenever I’m in my closet, it feels good…
Next!
kudos on the plan…not a bad idea, I need to get my lazy butt back into it, you may provide some motivation 🙂