Minimalism – step 2?

Ok, I have continued to ponder this thing called minimalism. I have watched several episodes of Hoarders – holy crap! That show scares me!! My husband, God Love him, has some hoarder tendencies. It is hard for him. However, I have been pondering and have determined that I have been enabling him for a couple of decades now. I think that I have a few hoarder tendencies myself or at the very least the fact that I am easily distracted and full of a busy, buzzing, moving, millions of ideas and projects all the time … Well, anyway. I am going to move into phase two of the self improvement plan. I believe that I have been less irritable towards Marek within the last three months – staying focused on the goal is helping. I have, of course, more room for improvement but things are looking good! I have much more work to do on patience and tolerance for my husband. I love him so much! He is such a wonderful man. Patient, giving, kind, considerate, faithful! Sadly, I focus on the negative too often and I am over controlling which turns out bad for him since he doesn’t usually need to be controlled! He is difficult sometimes and I feel irritated. I am sure that I am a colossal pain in his patootie right back! Anyway….

I have allowed things to collect. We don’t need them, we don’t want them, we pretty much agree on this. Marcus has not had the time or the inclination to move forward on some of our projects and I have allowed myself to make excuses and “wait” for him to be ready. I’m done with that! If I crank up the energy perhaps he will crank up his energy. If he doesn’t, no problem, the projects will still be done! Instead of starting a million projects with only half the plan in place, I am going to make some lists. I am going to stick to my lists. I am going to continue to make good choices about my use of time and set good boundaries with my commitments. This is all a step towards minimizing!

As spring fever hits, I am tempted to jump into five million projects! OH! I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE!! But wait! I don’t want to fritter away money. I don’t want to live with the piles I have in my closet and my basement. I have been inspired by the blogs written by two friends and some random strangers, I CAN be more organized and improve my current standard of living. Yep, gonna make some lists for inside and outside and then I’m going to monitor my time and the weather and get some stuff done!