Not Dabbling, Not Thinking and Changes

Do you know where I’ve been? A guest post over at Not Dabbling in Normal! Check it out: Tara’s Not Dabbling.

Thanks to Kathie for letting me blabber on. Also, thanks to her for starting the Doing Not Thinking Challenge, which I have ironically been doing a lot of thinking about. HA!

I’m using this opportunity to really focus on what I’ve been wanting to do for some time. But sometimes the timing isn’t right or you’re not fully ready to move forward and you just have to wait for the right moment to jump in. Thankfully her challenge came at the right time and I’m ready to capitalize on the opportunity. I feel good!

So I’ve been starting by organizing my thoughts and formulating a plan. I have until September 20th, which is 20 weeks from today. I updated my lists on my sidebar to reflect my goals and track some progress. And I added one. Here they are again:

• Goal #1: Time management: – to find a rhythm to my days that allow me to have fun, enjoy the things I don’t want to miss and accomplish the tasks I’d like to accomplish.
• Goal #2: Purge every room of my home of uneeded or unused “stuff” and hopefully have a yard sale (or ditch that idea and donate it all to Goodwill – Carol, maybe we could do our yard sale together? Or carpool to Goodwill!). I’ll have a little less than two weeks for each area.
• Goal #3: Learn to play the harmonica and successfully execute an entire Beatles song by the end of the challenge. It’s my all-time favorite instrument – I already own three of them – and I’m determined to begin practicing, with the intention of daily practice, knowing full well that’s unlikely but working towards it anyway. I know I won’t be tearing it up in 20 weeks, but I’ll at least be on my way.

Something else this challenge has motivated me to do is reorganize the blog. I eliminated my “Resources” page and added it all to an Amazon aStore in my links. I listed all my favorite unschooling, parenting, gardening and “green” books and more. FYI, I do get a commission for anything ordered off the aStore so if there is something you need would you mind checking there first? All funds go towards our land! :)

I also updated my other pages, adding “Our Garden” which is where I’ll update what’s growing and provide a few quick links to relevant blog posts. And I’ve updated The Five Year Plan as best I could with so much up in the air right now. I still haven’t figured out why this theme/layout won’t allow the page comments to show, though.

I created a button for my Sustainable Baby Steps posts to help it stand out and I also updated my “Sustainable Actions” list and added an Amazon “On My Nightstand” widget so you can easily spy on what I’m reading. (P.S. I’m always looking for more great books to read. As if I don’t have enough already.)

Then there is the “Check This Out!” links on the right – all the cool things I’ve found and wanted to share. And a “Find More of Me” in case you just can’t get enough. And I rearranged and added and omitted some links, and changed up my categories, as well.

And, soon I’ll have a new header and a button to share my blog.

I feel so accomplished! What have you been working on?