New Year, New Goals

If you're anything like me, you have intentions of being organized but don't always have the time. And you would think with my OCD (diagnosed, not self prognosed) that organization is something that would come easy to me. So what do you do to make it happen? My first plan for the week is to master time management via scheduling. Instead of my usual ADD hopping from one thing to another and then back to the first thing, there will be a time slot for EVERYTHING, including bathroom breaks:). Then I plan on tackling my son's playroom/landfill. It's gotten way out of hand in there and the kid has enough shit to open his own toy store/used car lot (let's just say he's not hurting for "transportation"). After that, I'll move on to closets and dressers, which really won't take all that long because they're not that bad but I'll feel better once they're done. There's also gonna be time slots dedicated to working, planning, writing and blogging so that I can complete my day and be able to do whatever I want to by 6pm every night. Now here's the big project: I have found TONS of old rolls of film at my mother's house and I'm talking pictures from most of my childhood, that havent been developed. And millions of pictures that need to be organized and put into albums. I also have a lot of my own pictures and videos on the computer that i'd like to print out and put in albums. So the plan is buy albums, develop films, and organize all pictures in these albums. This will be a Christmas gift for the entire family next year because it will literally probably take that long to do it all. My pics won't be as time consuming because my OCD already had them in month/year folders on the computer. The videos will be alot of work. Do you have several 1-5 minute snippets from events you've recorded? Probably not news to anyone but me because I'm slightly technologically handicapped but on media player on the computer, you can make movies. You can take all those short snippets and make one big movie!! You can add background music, slideshow, etc. Save it and then burn it to a DVD!! This is going to be fun!! So good luck to you all in the next year and I hope God rains down blessings on you all!! Get organized with me!! I'd love to hear your suggestions!!

New Year, New Traditions

Every New Year's day for as long as I can remember, we've eaten black eyed peas and cabbage. My mom always told me it was for wealth or something like that. By all accounts, I should be a millionare by now but not even close. Many cultures of many new year's traditions but I found a new one this year that I'm interested in, the chinese Law of Abundance.
According to the chinese Law of Abundance, it's a law of attraction type thing, like build it and they will come. There are other versions of this practice but the most common and well known is the check visualization exercise. This practice is said to be about 2000 or so years old and has been changed many times over the centuries.
So here's what you do: within 24 hours before the next new moon (the next one is January 23, 2012) you are going to write a check to yourself. If you don't have personal checks, there are several websites you can find through google to print out a fake one for this exercise. Date the "abundance check" with the current date. Make the check out to yourself, using your full legal name. You are going to leave the amount box and line blank (leaving possibilities and limitations open). On the Pay to the Order of line, write Paid in Full. Then sign on the signature line, Chinese Law of Abundance. You are then going to carry this check around in your purse or wallet and look at it daily, several times if you feel the need to.
I'm not sure exactly what it is about this that is supposed to bring your prosperity or if it even really does anything at all. I'm very skeptical about things like this since I am a Christian and all and it kinda sounds like some voodoo stuff. But I'm always willing to try new things out of curiosity and for entertainment. I've read on several websites that people have claimed to have success with this practice. Most notably, Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator, Jack Canfield.
So this year, I'll be sure to eat my traditional new year meal, black eyed peas, cornbread and cabbage. Then I'll be sure to write my abundance check on January 22. If you do the same, keep me posted on how things turn out for you in the new year. Happy New Year and I hope it brings you many blessings!!