I Have a Plan...I Always Have a Plan...and...There it Goes!

One of the things that I know about myself is that I put things off until I have time to do them and then I don't want to do them so I don't. Then, I figure out that I wasted time and start the cycle over again - putting things off and then planning to do them later on - you get the picture.

I am going to focus on today. Today I need to go to the grocery store and get ingredients for my favorite cookies of all time, and I need to go to the Dollar Tree to get some notepads for my current project. Before I get to those errands, however, I feel the urge to organize something, and I can see the first place that needs some attention - the bookshelves.

I have lots of bookshelves in my home. I am a tad overwhelmed with books. I have a basic organization system, and I'd like to make it a bit more purposeful. I have shelves for sheet music, for music therapy textbooks, for non-music therapy textbooks, and for projects. I also have fiction bookshelves lining my hallway and in my bedroom for more fiction. My first task today is to work on my bookshelves.

 After some work on the shelves, I'm going to do the rest of the things on my to-do for today list. In addition, I will fold some laundry and probably take a nap at some point. That's going to be the extent of my planning for this first day of break.

 Shelves...Dollar Tree...groceries...laundry...nap...repeat as needed until the day is over.

 Plan.

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