Better done than perfect

I’ve been putting off starting this blog for a very, very long time.

Here are just some of the reasons I’ve given myself:

  • I can’t get the domain I want
  • I need a better camera
  • I need a professional headshot
  • I need a bigger bank of content
  • I can’t decide which font to use
  • I don’t fully understand wordpress
  • I haven’t decided on which tags I should use

The list goes on and on. The fact remains though that I need this. It’s something I’m passionate about and that I’ve wanted to do for a very long time.

I’m an expert in providing myself with reasons to not do something when that something relates to myself. Give me a work deadline and I’ll do anything to hit it but when it comes to self care, hobbies or pursuing my own interests I procrastinate massively.

Part of the reason I think I do this is because I’m a perfectionist. I’m so busy editing, refining and deciding that I don’t get round to the doing. One of my motivations for starting this blog is to push myself towards doing. Yes this is a work in progress and no I don’t have it all figured out just yet but things are ‘better done than perfect’*.

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So here I go…

No logo, no design scheme, no content plan but I do have a few dodgy selfies and a bank of things I want to write about. Beyond all this I have a belief that I’m not the only one who’s juggling motherhood, work, marriage, family, friends and self confidence issues. Thanks so much for joining me as I seek new ways of finding a balance and taking the time to just breathe.

*I’m pretty sure I’m paraphrasing a quote from Georgia Hardstark from the My Favourite Murder podcast here (there’ll be more on podcasts in a future post). I heard it and it massively resonated with me, it really got the cogs in my head turning and I created my WordPress account the same day.

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Creating a corner of calm

When things feel a little chaotic creating a clear and un-cluttered space can work wonders…

My house is half finished. Since we moved in over a year ago we’ve tackled a couple of rooms but as life’s gotten busier it’s been difficult to knuckle down and get everything how we’d like it. Full disclosure – the house isn’t in a bad state of repair, the issue is more that I have lots of plans and ideas but not the time to act on them right now.

Sometimes the sheer amount of things we haven’t got around to doing in the house can make it feel like we haven’t done anything at all. This train of thought appears quite regularly in different areas of my life. Friends I feel I don’t see enough, relatives I want to do more for, work projects I’d like more time to complete… you get the picture. There just doesn’t seem to be the time to do everything as well as I’d like to.

So, what to do when it all feels to big to tackle? Break. it. down.

Rather than beating myself up for all the decorating, organising and minimising I couldn’t do I took one small corner of my bedroom and made it better. A former dumping ground strewn with clothes that no longer fit me, a bag of stuff I’d removed from my car when I sold it two months ago and piles of laundry became a tidy area I made my own and it really didn’t take that long to do.

A few trinkets from Primark and a little bit of time and I had a little corner of calm. It felt great and shifted the focus from the stuff I hadn’t done to something I had achieved.

I picked up this cute frame from Primark and I can’t wait to fill it with photos of family and friends

This corner of my bedroom had become my favourite dumping ground. Now clean and clutter-free the mess in other areas of the house doesn’t bother me so much

So there you have it. The little things really do make a difference. Just need to remember this the next time every single room in the house is in chaos! Break. it. down.

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