I was reading today and the writer shared about a simple meditation to help determine changes you might want to make in your life.

So I closed my eyes and imagined my happy place. (It’s a secluded beach in the Bahamas.) I asked the Universe what changes would be important to make in my life right now. Basically asked myself, “What isn’t working?”

Having just moved, that pretty much upended my life, so a lot of options for changes weren’t really necessary to consider.

After some time of just sitting quietly, I suddenly saw myself in my mind’s eye walking around with my nice camera, taking photos of beautiful locations and interesting objects. Wow, I miss my camera. It just never got unpacked when I moved. Definitely a change I want to make.

I also saw myself shutting my computer instead of playing games online. Those games are often just a time waster, but also can be a welcome respite from life’s stresses. Hm. I had the thought, “I could give the games up for Lent.” Which was a funny thought because I don’t usually give things up for Lent. But I was suddenly wondering, how would my life be different if I gave up the games for a while? I’d probably choose other simple activities. Reading. Writing. Cleaning. Photography. Art. Walking. Playing with the cats.

How long is Lent, anyway? 40 days? 46 days if you count Sundays? Anyway, I know it ends on Easter. I’m not even sure when Easter is this year. (I just checked. Easter is March 31st this year.)

So my little trip to my deserted beach in my mind brought out the desire to bring my camera out of the back recesses of the closet, and to take a little break from online games for a bit.

It felt like a worthwhile activity to find those answers.

I was given a file cabinet shortly after I moved. I’d been without a file cabinet for a number of years, so I was totally out of the habit.

I’ve been wanting to set it up, but perfectionism kept getting in the way. If I didn’t know exactly how I was going to set up the files, and if it wasn’t the perfect system, then I wasn’t going to do anything. So I’ve sat here with an empty file cabinet and a couple of piles of paper on my desk that needed to be filed.

Finally, a couple of days ago, I said to myself, “Progress is better than perfection.” So I went over to the first pile of papers, grabbed the first piece of random paper off the top, and made a file for it. And did this with each piece of paper in the pile. If there was already a file where it fit, I’d put it there. Otherwise, I’d create a new file. I just kept putting these random files one behind the other in no particular order. (I’ll sort that out later.)

For now, I have papers in files and no longer have piles on my desk.

Significant progress has been made! I’m quite pleased.