Say Yes to One Thing

We are often pulled in several different directions at once. I am unmarried, with no children, but with a job, active family, and a boyfriend fiance with whom I love spending my time, after three or four nights of social engagements, without fail I feel scattered.

When I do get a moment -- okay, even an hour -- at home, I feel like the donkey with the three stacks of hay. I can't seem to choose where to begin, and so I get hungrier and hungrier the longer I dither.

I've started getting organized and prioritized so that I'm not worried about what I should be doing. (By the way. If there is a word I dislike more than any other in the English language, it is "should." I actually have been trying to use it as infrequently as I can. It can almost always be replaced by more definitive words like "must," "would," "can," "shall," or completely on the other side -- "won't!"

Here are the things I actually would like to do: reading my Bible, walking/doing yoga, writing, and, out of necessity (but I also get enjoyment out of it), cleaning! I'll try to talk about them in more detail in a couple of days. Some of them I already like to do, some I force myself to do, others I want to like to do. Like most worthy things, they're difficult in the execution and blissful in the conclusion!