Priorities – I am one

Well, life has been busy!  Going out with friends, looking at Venues, celebrating a neighbor’s birthday with a Rib Cookoff (which DH won!), meeting new people and then just being together.  

No time for writing, not here, or even in my morning pages!  But I’ve missed it so I’m making time today and hopefully will all week.  I need to make me and things I enjoy a priority too.  

Priorities, yeah, I’m really trying to work them.  Things I really want to make a priority – 

Health

  Water intake, eating habits, walking, yoga

I was going to put writing (morning pages, blog, notes) in a separate category from health but honestly, I think they are good for my health!  As is my morning practice, which was going to go in even another category!  They are all good for my health.  So let’s start again.

Priorities for me in no particular order. 

Drink water!

Eat healthy (more veggies!)

Walk every day

My daily practice – meditation, prayer, readings

Yoga to take care of those muscles

Morning pages

Blog

Notes/letters

Time outside in nature

So far, this all has taken most of my morning into the afternoon.   Of course, I have other priorities as well, family, family, family and friends but I have spent most of my life putting other people’s priorities and needs over mine and well, my children are grown and have flown the coop and it’s time for me to take some time for me. Honestly, I feel like if I had been doing this all along, I would have been a little better off, but we live and learn.  

I wonder if perhaps I had done this when the kids were younger, if we’d all be a little healthier – physically and mentally.  I guess I’ll never know, but I can start now and set the example for those around me.  

I am a priority.  I am MY priority.  I’m learning that it’s like the masks on the airplane situation.  You need to put your own mask on first so that you are then able to help others. I am learning to fill my cup! 

Of course I say this today and we will see what tomorrow brings, but I’m living in the moment and today, I AM ON IT!!  I GOT THIS!

Until next time… ♥️