Focus List of Ten

The new me – same as the old me – just the best me that I can be!

I am challenging myself to focus on the ten things listed below that are important to me and can use a little improvement.

Some I have started already, others will become more of a focus in the coming weeks.

I am happy being me and living my particular life. I am grateful for all that I have…because I have a lot! But that doesn’t mean I don’t need improvement. Everyone needs improvement, because no one is perfect. (I apologize if you are perfect…I do not mean to offend anyone!)

Here is my Focus List of Ten:

#1- Weight Loss (Food): Taking accountability for what I eat and improve my daily diet. I am on Weight Watchers and have committed to tracking every little bite that goes into my mouth!

#2- Weight Loss (Activity): I have committed to moving more every single day.

#3- Organize: Many aspects of my life are organized, but my physical and electronic spaces are disasters in great need of attention. I am working slowly to make necessary improvements (one corner of my life at a time)!

#4- Learning: There are so many things I want to learn…the world is such an interesting place. Right now I am focusing on learning to blog, but there are many other items on the list to learn!

#5- Relationships: Strong friend and family relationships are so important to our happiness, so I want to maintain and grow my current relationship and maybe even create some new ones. I love being part of a community and I am starting to feel part of the blogging community.

#6- Giving Back: I make donations often, but I don’t give enough of my time and energy to improving my world.

#7- Mindfulness: I would like to start to meditate and do yoga.

#8- Fun Stuff: I don’t want to let daily life get in the way of fun stuff. I want to do more fun stuff!!!

#9- Stepping Out of my Comfort Zone: I want to step out of my comfort zone more often. I don’t think that means daily, but maybe weekly.

#10- Decorating: This one freaks me out. I can’t even admit out loud how long we have lived in our home without painting or hanging a picture. I know many of you love this, but for me it is a fear much higher on the list than public speaking!

What are you focusing on improving? Any tips you can provide to help with my improvements are greatly appreciated!

PSA of the Day…Make a list to focus on and then focus on that list!

Daily Prompt: The Satisfaction of a List

We Can See the Floor!!!

My husband announced last night with glee that we can finally see the floor in our study!

This is the first time this is true since we moved in…and I am not admitting to how long ago that was. I am so excited that we are going to get to use this room soon as it has basically been a storage facility!

Last week I decluttered the first corner and now the second corner is complete!

I wish I had taken a before picture that showed the mess behind the red chair, but sadly I didn’t. There was a mess back there! Now I still have a bunch of pictures, frames and mirrors that will be hung in the Fall when we fully decorate this room (and others), but other than that it is cleared out!

Two more corners – two more weeks – and the room will be done decluttering! Yippie!!!

To manage this project I collected about one bag of garbage and one bag of items to be donated. Everything else found its proper home somewhere else!

I am so excited!  What tricks do you have for decluttering?

On a side note:

I was nominated again for a Liebster Award by Second Catalogue.  I was nominated previously by Fearless Fitness (you can see my response post here).

I am going to do this again because I think it is a fabulous way to discover new blogs and meet other bloggers.

According to these rules, you are supposed to list 11 facts about the person behind the words.  So here are 11 facts about me:

1. I am in my forties (how did that happen?)
2. I live in suburban NY
3. I have two stepsons
4. I have an amazing husband
5. I began blogging 2 weeks ago and love it!
6. I am spending time improving myself and hopefully the world around me
7. I love the beach
8. I love to laugh
9. I would like to participate in a 5K this summer – and by participate I mean walk, not run…and not be the last to finish!
10. I love to travel
11. I have some big decorating projects in my near future that are scaring me silly!

11 Questions:

1. Where was your most favorite place to travel to?  Turks and Caicos

2. What did you study in college, and what is your profession now? Studied psychology, but I am a marketing professional.

3. Favorite word?  Happy

4. If you had to leave earth, what three things would you take with you?  My husband and two stepsons (although their mother may have a small issue with this!)

5. Blonde, brunette or redhead?  Brunette

6. Favorite childhood cartoon?  Jetsons

7. What’s the story behind your blog name?  The plan was to share information that I thought was important

8. Who is your role model and what have you taken away from them?  I don’t have one specific role model, but I do look to people who are living happy, fun-filled, successful lives.

9. Winter or summer?  Summer

10. Favorite cuisine?  Unfortunately, all!

11. If you could choose an animal that represents yourself, what would you be?  Dolphin

My Nominees

I am going to stick with the theme of my post and include blogs that I am following that focus on organization and decorating (which my study will be getting soon enough!)

For the nominees and those interested in the Liebster Awards, the rules are at the bottom of the post.

1. http://myhomedesign.me/
2. https://nicecurtains.wordpress.com/
3. http://thetidycorner.com/
4. http://www.simpleighorganized.com/
5. https://asezasabc.wordpress.com/
6. https://livingthetinylife.wordpress.com/about/
7. https://sothisismyplace.wordpress.com/
8. https://gaurichauhan.wordpress.com/
9. http://seasideandsage.com/
10. https://fabulousorganization.wordpress.com/
11. https://kwdesignblog1.wordpress.com/

The Rules:

Thank and link back to the person(s) who nominated you and display the award

– Answer their 11 questions the nominee asked
– Give 11 Random facts about yourself
– Nominate 11 bloggers with less than 200 followers
– Notify the bloggers you chose for the award
– Make a list of 11 different questions for you nominees to answer (I would like my nominees to answer the same questions!)