During our recent local "Snow and Ice storm" I made a discovery. First of all you have to remember that I live in the South therefore "Snow and Ice Storm" is a loose term. However the weather and it's effects on our roads did close down schools in our area for three days. Having both of my jobs connected to the school systems, as a result I had three days off essentially to stay at home. Each night as I received word that I did not have school the next day, I would declare "great, tomorrow I am going to catch up on my school paper work!" Yet it is Sunday night and that school paperwork has not been caught up on. Granted my nails have been filed, my eye brows plucked, thank you notes written, and my laundry room cleaned out. I baked cupcakes for a friend's birthday, baby sat, started dog sitting, painted on a rug for school, made a music CD for my after school program, took my brother to lunch and even read most of a book recommended by my counselor. I kept up with my training runs, cooking, dishes, laundry, and communication via various technology. I used my time productively but not on the "cloud over my head" project of school paper work. Therefore my discovery is that I have not done it because I don't have time but because I plain don't want to. I use "too busy" and "no time" as my excuse but the truth is I don't want to do and until I am pushed against the wall I probably won't. What I am to do with the discovery is not exactly clear but perhaps for starters I should stop claiming that it is not done because "I just don't have the time." Because anyone that knows I was "snowed in" for three days knows that is just not true.
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So honest and so true of most, if not all of us, that we make time for what we want!
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