What Can I Change So I'll Be Happier?

 

What can I change to be happier?  How can I make my every day happier?

Now these are some more interesting questions to consider!

(When I compiled these questions last year I never dreamt how thought-provoking, soul-searching  and useful I would find them...)

What comes immediately to mind is:

Paint the garden walls?

I'm getting myself ready to do that.

I need to mull over what I want to do to be sure it is what I want to do.

I also give myself time so I find the most efficient and pleasing way for me to do "it."

So far I figure if I do one set of panels a painting session, I'll enjoy doing the job.

I reckon it'll take me about a month to do them all.

And it won't get too tired per day.

And I won't get too hot - I'll choose a cooler time of the day to do my one set of panels.

And the paint brush and roller won't get too yucky to clean.

Give away more "things?"

Each week I give away a few more things.

Tidy the spare-room storeroom?

I'm pondering on that...

It has too many things in it.

The roof also has a leak so at the moment there are things on the floor to catch the drips until the leak is attended to - not quite sure how to do it yet... 

I have a tentative plan so far.  It will get done.

Find or have made/make more summer pants?

I know what I want.  I know what I need.

I can't find it in the shops I've been to.

So - I'm about to go to the fabric shop and see if I can find what I want.

I'll either make them myself or find someone to make them for me.

I haven't decided that yet.

Be more diligent with my house-keeping/home maintenance?

(It's easier for me to keep a home tidy enough and sufficiently maintained 

than to remedy neglected states.)

(And going about it steadily spreads the cost more evenly...  

I think it costs less to keep maintained than to rehabilitate...) 

Actually I found my card system for Side-tracked Home Executives (SHE) 

and am happily using them again. 

I find I'm also influenced by FLYlady so I'm adding some of those terms on my cards.  These systems work for me!  They help me keep myself a little more organized.  

I'm naturally not organized.  

Actually, I'm organized in my own way - which looks to other people like not organized... 

And also, to me "People are More Important than Things."  

So - often the people in my life, me included, are prioritized.  

So already I feel more cheerful these last few back-achey days of this back-achey year.

(What IS that all about????)

I'm generally content and peaceful.  

I flow as much as I can - let as few things bother me as I can.

So... onward, ever onward.

One day at a time.

What can you change to be happier?

And - How can you make your every day happier?