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I ended 2012 with a wardrobe clean-out! Several large bags and boxes of clothes and shoes found their way to the op shop - many of which I hadn't worn for years. I love a good declutter at the best of times and this felt like a super cleansing way to start the new year.
Looking back, 2012 was a great year. I set goals and didn't achieve them all, but I'm not losing sleep over it. I achieved things I didn't even set out to do and they turned out to be the best experiences of all.
I've got a good feeling about 2013 (in our family, 13 is the luckiest number around) and I'm determined to make this 'The year I ditched guilt'. No fancy pants resolutions (I'll just end up feeling guilty I didn't see them through)...just a philosophy I aim to stick to. You see, I carry guilt ALL THE TIME! Guilt that I was unable to birth my babies naturally, guilt that I've chosen to live 1600km's away from family, guilt that I'm a working mum, guilt that I don't wash the floors enough, guilt that I contribute to global warming, guilt that I don't prepare all our food from scratch, guilt that I intentionally make those around me feel guilty (the man who means more to me than anyone else on this planet cops my guilt mind games the most), guilt that I spend too much time reading blogs, writing a blog, comparing myself to all the other super Mum's out there in blog land who in my mind appear to being doing a much better job caring for their families than me (even though they probably suffer the same guilt I do), guilt about....gee I could write a list that goes on and on for days. You get the idea, I'm guilty! But not this year. I'm cutting the chain on this useless, pointless emotion we call guilt!
Happy New Year folks!
May 2013 be guilt-free for you also!
xxx
1 comment:
I feel you and agree with your guilt comments. Not sure why we do it to ourselves. I am sure your family doesn't notice the unwashed floor or occasional pre-packed extra foods. Have faith that your family are happy and that you contribute to it.
That was my resolution last year. Volunteered and in-forced by my partner. He said I have to enjoy and accept that I do a good job within my circle of capability. The world makes it hard and I step up and do my best, every day, every hour I do what I can to make us, as a family, happy. It made me cry when he said it, but I have spent a year thinking and trying to live by what he said on New Years Eve last Year. I did what I could and what I couldn't I made up for in love.
You (from what I read) love, live and play with them, they are great because of it.
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