The Best of Intentions
How does your To Do list look this year? How many projects do you have lurking in corners? Photo albums, taxes, writing a will, work or reno projects, and thank you cards are common culprits for most of us… The best of intentions. The project we Know we Should do, but somehow Don’t do. We may even Want to, but we Don’t.
For over a year the concept of the Mama Renew blog sat patiently on our To Do list, waiting for the day that we would devote some loving energy to bring it to life.
Now here we are, one simple week of loving attention and focus and magically our blog has come to life. It is so exciting to see the great potential for community building and sharing the Mama Renew message.
Now, as so often happens when we finish something that we’ve been pondering for ages, I find myself wondering – why didn’t this happen a year ago? What held us back? A big part of it was the fear of having to learn something new. For an entire year we said “we should make this happen”, and didn’t. We were giving our energy and attention to what we weren’t doing rather than simply Doing it!
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What about you? What wonderful projects have you left lurking on your To Do list? How often do you find yourself thinking, “I can’t believe I haven’t done that yet”, and then once again not doing it? What do you need to get started?
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