Beauty For Ashes

I just read a blog about crutches and it made me think that maybe I ought to ponder on that a bit more.  You know how you go through life and this little sense of frustration follows you?  Okay, maybe you don’t experience it, but lets say, hypothetically you do.  Anyway, you know it starts out as a little sense of frustration and then it blossoms into this ginormous bush filled with the fruit of frustration.  Well, I’m there.  So, in light of that, I thought maybe it is time to take a page from this blog I just read and face my excuses and crutches…the reasons why I don’t do (fill in the blank).

My house needs to be cleaned - Okay, so this is a really difficult one for me because, my house always needs to be cleaned,  The crutch is this, if my house is messy, my mind cannot concentrate on those things I want to accomplish to be successful.

I need to have a plan - when have I ever been a planner and worse yet, my best work is done without a plan.

I’m scared - when am I not scared.  Take Hawaii for example.  I love the water, I enjoy body surfing, I would like to learn to surf for real.  When we went to Hawaii several years ago, the only thing I could think of when I was playing in the waves was “today I’m going to die because a sharks going to bite me”.  Yet, on the outside I was smiling and having a wonderful time because I don’t want my childrent to see how lillylivered I am.  See pride may not be a good thing in general but it serves it’s purpose when you don’t want to be seen as a ninny.

Today I am going to live without excuse and accomplish what I want to accomplish.  I’ll let you know how that goes.  I’m not confindent(she says with a chigrined smile) however, I am going to complete one piece of artwork, clean my bedroom and get packed for our trip.  That’s it.  That’s what I’m going to do.