I had a “Consider the lilies of the fields” moment yesterday and was inspired to twitter : “life is easy, effortless and always exceeds my expectations :)”
On reflection, these are the ways that I habitually squeeze the ease and effortlessness out of my life.
- I try to please all of the people all of the time
- I forget to call people I care about
- I have never taken a driving test
- I allow clutter to accumulate in my living and working spaces
- I worry
- I look for what I can get out of a situation instead of what I can give
- I start a new thing before I’ve finished the last
- I always look for ways to do the least possible to get by
- I don’t ask for what I want
- I don’t even admit to myself what I want
Oh, and 11. I take the whole thing waaaaay too seriously 😀
Let’s see if I can make some small improvements…
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(((Lloyd))) I do 9 out of 10 of those things, too. And I take it all way too serioiusly. O if only life was simple…
Lloyd – chasing snow round the UK so you can build a snowman, sticking mints in bottles of wine to cause an explosion, doing that freaky thing with your face – hardly taking life too seriously.
Or were you doing ironic?
Rosie, thank you, that’s the consistent feedback I’ve had – we’re all more the same than we think 🙂
Ade – tears of a clown mate, tears of a clown 😉
Doh! You trickster you!!
Nice idea, Lloyd – seems like quite a cathartic thing to do to write a list like this. A lot of these would probably appear in my list methinks