Good morning, Blessed! Thanks for starting us off.
1. What is the best words of advice that you have heard from important women in your life? About life, home, marriage ... anything.
2. What do you think your best words of advice you think you have given? to yourself, you family and to others.
3. How has that impacted your life and your home life?
1. The one I've said recently is "Growing old isn't for sissies." From our Ancient in California. She was a real example of living life and by the time she was complaining about aging, she had made sure to do the fun things early so there was nothing left undone.
2. "
No" is a complete sentence. I say that one a lot, mostly to overwhelmed women. We don't have to justify ourselves, we should be and must be masters of our time and energy.
3. Number one makes me more likely to allow myself to be distracted but thus do stuff. My dad traveled all his working life (sea captain along with Canadian representative on international navigation committees after he gave up the sea) and Mom stayed home with the kids and only took a few trips with him. When he retired, I expected him to travel but he was done. Mom was disappointed she never got to travel.
I asked him why he wouldn't travel with her and he was just tired of it and wanted to stay home. I had heard the same thing from another source, people save all their lives to travel when they retire and then are too tired, too stuck in their ways, too ill to do so. So travel while you can enjoy it.
That experience with the reminder that growing old is tough is partly why I have spent so much money traveling now. And like my Dad, I'm tired of it now.
I have to keep giving myself the words from number 2. There's a lot I want to do and want to do now, but there are limits. I need to narrow my focus down.
I do like to change things up every decade or so. That helps to keep me from getting too stagnant, too early.