That’s how it’s supposed to be right?
especially here in the southern Hemisphere where everything stops at Christmas, annual leave is taken and people slowly drift back to work during January, refreshed and relaxed from summer holidays.
For people like me in the world of selling lovely things (lovely was banned from my vocabulary for 2011 but I’m letting myself resurrect it for 2012) December is crazy and then it’s all a bit quiet till sometime mid feb or march depending on how popular you are. So for the creative types it leave many hours over the new year to in the words of the wonderful emma, Make some plans, schemes, hopes and dreams
Every year without fail I start thinking about things, making many of those things
but then the world of my reality hits me, the one where CFS likes to remind me every January that sometimes it’s in control. So while my brain has all these things running around my body is screaming sit down slow down, because for the last few years my not so wee body has had a huge CFS crash in the first few months of the year.
It’s a result of the pressure I put myself through every December and a timely reminder that the 50% rule is one that serves me best, think of what I want to do, what I think I can do and then automatically halve it by 50% and i get to what I’ll be able to do, except in January and February when my list is at 0 and if I get anything beyond that it’s bonus time.
When I first think about that it feels hard and unfun. and boring oh so very boring
But If I put my mind to it and think a little more and remember this lovely postcard that I have on my wall it can be a word of fun and different and unusual. So my list of everything for 2012 current looks like this
1. apply some coco channel to my life.
She is famously quote as saying
“Get yourself fully dressed and then, before walking out the front door, pause by the mirror and remove one item.”
and
“Less is always more.”
this is so much more fun than the 50% rule so that’s my 2012 list apply some coco
Let’s see what happens
