How DO you find the time to both live life and record life? It’s tough to integrate everything into 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I’ve decided to be a bit more selfish this year. I realized after trying for the umpteenth time to integrate all the various commitments I had made, it just was too much. As much as I love DSP, I decided for many reasons to step down from the team and back to member status. I have big goals I’ve set for myself this year in many areas of my life and to accomplish them, I know I need to give myself the gift of time. One of those goals is to scrap in a way that really matches my life instead of some weird way I think I ‘should’ if I’m a team member. It’s definitely NOT anything anyone at DSP ever asked of me – just my own odd thoughts of what I thought I ‘should’ do. The team there is wonderfully accommodating, but I need to deal with my weirdness on this issue. So – I’m just a member now and finding my scrapbooking feet again.
As we’re a tad past half way through January, I find myself catching up on the Daily Scrapping I’m trying this year. What’s working? The notebook – jotting a sentence or two about the day a couple of times a day. Takes all of about 5 minutes a day. I can do that. Taking photos – easy to grab the camera and then download every few days. The template – that’s helping enormously. I don’t have to think – just plunk down a photo and journalling. I have more days to catch up on, but I don’t feel any pressure – it’s just a part of the daily routine. If I can keep the notes and photos going, I don’t mind taking a weekend afternoon to get the layouts done.
I think the simple act of giving myself permission unlocked the secret. Permission to ONLY address one or two main tasks a day. Permission to take weekends off from work related to the business. Permission to take the time needed to really focus on each task – to NOT multi-task. And it’s working – I actually have more time by doing less, but addressing each task with more focus.
