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Why We Feel the Need to Control Time?
Why do we need to control our time? There are reasons why some of us tend to want to do this. I’ve been doing some research and it is stemming from neurological stimuli or lack thereof and/or subconscious debris that is floating around in there in our psyches. In the past year, I’ve been almost obsessed with trying to cram so much into my schedule and I will do almost anything to protect what little time I have in my schedule. Some bloggers have put me down for my constant quest for more time, comparing my life to others, and telling me to get over it and just be happy…
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Stocking up the Office for Work, Boundaries at Work, Being Considerate, and Yesterday’s Progress
I had a load to take into work yesterday! Here’s my “haul”. I eat breakfast and lunch and snack there, so it dwindles quickly. Yesterday was another odd work day. A little more trouble than it needed to be. I usually find myself begging others to turn in things for payroll. I decided to draw a line/a boundary. I’m getting good at those! People know what they need to do and depend on me to remind, beg, plead, scream, whimper, fuss, throw feathers. But…I’m no longer going to be the “fire lighter” under the butts of the problem. I’m just going to calmly do my job and let others do…
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How the Busy Schedule Flattened Out Over the Last Two Years
As empty nesters, we thought we had life figured out. No teenagers in the house, just us and a couple of dogs, still working the full-time jobs, and eating out a lot, seeing friends, going to concerts, making plans, having fun, blogging, playing music, and spending time on the weekends cleaning, exploring, meal planning, and squeezing in some extra play time. When 2020 hit we enjoyed our downtime, I started videoing our lives, and had no idea how precious that time would actually become and how contrasted it would be against 2021 and 2022 when we were on some kind of a roller coaster – slingshot – whiplash kind of…
