A while back, I purchased a Franklin Planner to try and help myself stay organized. Of course I procrastinated and didn't begin using it right away because the act of putting the thing together (there are a lot of parts) was something I was not ready to spend hours doing. This week when I decided to actively pursue organization I pulled it out and began using it.
One of the things I noticed right away about this planner is that it has a quote on the top of each daily page. I bought the "Simplicity" set with my planner. Each month has a theme and on the top of each daily page is a quote that deals with that theme. The theme for September is "Seek". The quotes from the past three days have had a special meaning for me.
9/12:
"the best answers are the ones you discover within yourself"
- margaret smoot
9/13:
"everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change."
- katherine mansfield
9/14:
"opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
- ann landers
I am actively seeking myself. I have been doing a lot of soul searching the past few days and a lot of what I am seeing in myself are things that I consider ugly and dislike in other people. These are things that I want to change within myself.
All week people have been coming up to me and asking for my opinion or advice on this or that. I realized the other day that I can't help anyone until I help myself first. The spring cleaning starts at home, and by home I mean within me. Everything else is secondary. So I'm still working on it.
I don't expect that I am suddenly going to change overnight into the world's most polite, neat and organized person but the small steps I accomplish which lead to the bigger goals will keep me happy in the meantime.
I've been making lists of all the things I don't want to do anymore. Each day I am trying to take small steps to eliminate bad behaviors. Each day I am growing stronger as a person.
As EJ says, back at it y'all.
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