I've been reading on a couple other blogs about people sacrificing to better themselves.  Dandelion_Seeds is a woman that I very much admire, and she is going to take a month of quiet to really clean her heart.  Over at Square_Space they are going to "fast" by not spending any money on anything except necessities.  BOTH of these women got me thinking.  I need help.  I need help focusing on what is important. 

I don't have all the details yet, so that is why I will be finishing this post up tomorrow after things are more clear.  I do know that there are some things that I have already started to do in my home that will continue.  And other ideas that I have wanted to implement which I have yet to do. 

Beginning Monday, September 18th, 2006 through Tuesday, October 17th, 2006, I am going to simplify my life. 

I will have self - rules -- or challenges.  They are not going to be specific such as "you will bring the wash downstairs at 7 a.m. every morning and hang them to dry at 8" -- these will be more general.  But they will be things that I feel are important for me to do in order to not only simplify my life -- but to live the type of life that I always think is down the road.  Does that make sense?  Like when you say "Once my youngest is "this" old I will be able to do "this"  or "once we have "this" amount of money in the bank I will feel "this".  It's time to live in the NOW.  I'm missing things.  Important things.  I'm planning more than I'm DOING. 

I'm serious about this.  I'm going to be looking inward and getting down to the simple things.  The IMPORTANT things.

Tomorrow I'll be listing my challenges.  That's my assignment for tonight -- to figure out the most advantageous way to spend 30 days.

Sherry