So some people have been coming up with a word for the upcoming year. A word to define, or sometimes direct the year by. This is tough for me. I have a hard time distilling everything down to that one particular important word. But I try anyway, because it makes me think.
And the fact that it's taken me like four weeks to finally think this out and write it down is just evidence that I need this word to apply pretty terrible.
The word for me this year will be SIMPLE. Yes, as in like "keep it simple, stupid." Except for the stupid part since I really hate when people call themselves stupid.
The reason why? Well, I'm way in over my head right now. I have way way more to do than I can ever possibly get done to my satisfaction. And most if not 99% of what I'm doing is good and important and a large amount of it I enjoy. So where can I cut some of it out? I can't. So what I have to do is just keep everything as simple as I can, and not require too much of myself at any given time.
Like......making dinner. It's so hard for me. It's a tough time of day, I'm not a very good cook and I can never think of what to make that actually sounds good and is healthy. So I've got to keep it simple. I've got to find some easy things that sound decent and figure out how to do them well and quickly. OK, so that's not a simple task, but once I get it figured out it should simplify things.
Here's a good example of something I already did. I really wanted to make delicious sugar cookies at Christmastime. I usually do it and they're delicious and fun and so festive. I made the dough, twenty times in my mind. I never got it done. And instead of beating myself up because I didn't get something fun done I just decided I'd make "winter" cookies instead and put it off until after Christmas. And we did it. Later when the pressure wasn't quite as intense. They tasted just as good.
So it won't be particularly simple to simplify things, but after the initial work I think it will benefit us all. And then I can keep doing all the good stuff I'm doing. And hopefully I won't go crazy.
So there you go.
