Options...

I have a strong sense at the moment that I am chasing myself around in circles. I am on holidays and I had planned on working  on streamlining things in my life but at the moment because I have been researching lots of different things that I havent had time to do before; I have actually created more OPTIONS for myself!

In seeking to minimize I wonder how it is that the time I would need to do all these things got multiplied so easily? I mean after all there are only so many hours in the day and even then there are things we must do as a priority and also there are clearly limits to our physical bodies which exist in time and space!

I think options are a great thing, I always want options. Ask my friends and family. Whenever its possible to have an option rather than one choice I will always look for it and then mull over it... Options means you have choice, you can work out what is best for you but sometimes when you have too many options it means  you could end up wasting a lot of time trying to figure things out.

So as you may know I had been away on holidays for a week in the country. Of course I over packed because I liked to have plenty of options. I took my own Doona so that I could even have the option of my bedding and more warmth. I took a whole bag full of books with me 'just in case', and my beautiful friend joked with me... 'one book is enough!'.  Of course the God's honest truth is that I just couldn't fit in all my options, I barely read any book and perhaps even less than normal! I took all my painting gear so that I might get some time to put paint to canvas but when it got down to it I wouldnt have time to do that properly either.

I wonder if I will learn a lesson eventually and hone what it is that I want to do? What is the most valuable and work on that and do some quality time on it rather than flitting from one thing to another like a honey bee that has too many flowers to choose from!

You have to work out if you are helping or hindering yourself! Are your options enhancing your life or are they spreading you way to thin so make any time or any option count for the most good!

Maybe its time to chop the list down an 'option' or two! =)

Love

~\Cam/~

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Time keeps on slippin, slippin, into the future...

We are building our future today... I don't think we realise that it is going on right under our noses. Every thought, every word, every deed and consideration takes something of today and places it in the future.

Its something that I don't think we fully understand, but we are shaping what the future will look like. We may think that each day is a 'stand alone' day but really it is a building block.

So when we say to ourselves it doesn't matter... One more day can't hurt, it may not seem to right now but every day counts. It counts for what we desire in coming days, our plans, our dreams and hopes and whether they will come to pass... One day, one day, one day... and the thing is we don't any of us know how many days we have left.

I don't to leave words unspoken or have promises unkept... I know there are things I also keep putting off but I pray that it won't be the most important things. The things that will cause me to leave a good mark on my family, the people I love, my friends, the community in which I reside, which may not be where I live in the suburbs. It might be the place I live in front of all of you that I communicate with each day.

We are each a future builder, in so many ways we would be shocked if we were only aware the things that actually counted that we do each day, and the things that we may leave undone also count for something.

I pray I will fulfill the call on my life, I pray I will be the best person I can be, the best wife, the best mother, the best friend, the best human I can be.

Time indeed keeps on slippin into the  future. I hope I do it honor and that I can keep up with it, and when my days are done may the least amount of things be left undone!

I hope you like these quotes on the future as they will definitely make you think...

~\Cam/~

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future.  And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.                                                                         ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.                                                                                                   ~Charles F. Kettering

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.                                                   ~Terri Guillemets

And in today already walks tomorrow.                                                                  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.                                                                ~L.M. Montgomery

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future!  How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed....                                    ~D.H. Lawrence, "Wedlock"

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.                     ~Author Unknown

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.                                       ~Voltaire

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.  ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A slice of heaven on earth...

I'm away at my friend's place in the country this week. It's honestly a little slice of heaven on earth. I came by myself to spend some quiet time reading, writing, perhaps painting, and just getting some alone 'me' time.

Even though I spent the first several days here on my own I still feel as if time keeps on slipping into the future (sounds like a song title doesn't it?) and I am missing using it the way I want even though its me using my time. Always so much to do and so little you know what!

Part of my plan of coming away was to write, to read, to rethink my current life schedule. You do realise we all have a 'life schedule' that keeps us ticking along. It is a good thing but when it gets a  bit lop sided its time to straighten it out again.

I wish I could bend time and squish more into it. I also wish I could just use my time at a pleasant pace and mozy along with it like the flow of a river, no such luck in this day and age! There is always something or someone to push you along like men that lead the dogs that drive snow sleds. What do they say to those doggies?  I think its 'Mush Mush'. My life gets so busy it seems like mush!

So far in trying to streamline my life 'procedures' I think I have somehow successfully added more into my day and taken nothing away from it. This is not what I want. Its like the movie title 'Something's Gotta Give' in the end it does, and if we don't do it for ourselves then somehow it gets done for us, and that is not the desired way to go about this.

Perhaps tomorrow when I wake up is a good time to really go over all of this and see what could give! I am sure there is some way to do it!

~\Cam/~