Isn't it amazing how different five minutes can feel depending on the situation you are in? Five minutes can feel like an eternity when you are waiting for a class to end, are closing at work, or are just that close to home but you have to go to the bathroom rrrrreally bad. And then there are times when five minutes goes by and you think, "wait! i need more time!" Such as when you are watching your favorite TV show & need to run to an appointment, or you are running late to meet someone, or in my case the other morning when you want more time to sleep and five minutes really turns into 25 minutes but only felt like 2 minutes!
I was talking today with one of my mentors telling him how I wish I wasn't in school so I could be a better wife and make our house more "homey" with all these projects I am listing in my head. He just said, "Andrea, you need to simplify. Don't let those lists & projects get in the way of life. Make a small list of things that need to get done, and when you have extra time, those other things can get done. Before you know it you will have kids and they will be all grown up. Don't stress about those things. They aren't important."
And guess what? Just a month ago I accepted a personal challenge to "Simplify." He is right. It would do me good to apply just 5 minutes a day on certain projects to put one more moving box away, or spend 5 minutes de-junking my closet, etc.I am finding more and more that I tend to get bogged down with things becaues "I don't have enough time" to get them done. Every day, I have 5 minutes that I can do those simple things such as putting one more box of things away. I'm too hard on myself about not getting things done and it is taking a toll on my emotional health.
