Archetypes Revisited

I am working my way through Carline Myss book on Archetypes, and so far most of the information was predictable and nothing was really striking me as interesting, until I got to the chapter on the Spiritual Seeker. 

Wow, that chapter really had me in an outline that fit like a glove.  The self help books, the need for a path, the questions that don't get answers and the answers that only lead to more questions. 

At the end of each chapter is a list of what to do when you lose your power, including listening to your own gut.  I think that I need to do that much more.  I need to take my own counsel and stop giving others my power.  No one matters as much as my opinion of myself.  Keep your beliefs and values foremost in your mind. 

In the meantime,  I am still working on the basement and getting it rearranged by trial and error.  Moving the washer was not as difficult as I thought it was going to be.  Moving the large shelf twice was not really in the plan, but has happened just that way.  I think next I need to think about moving the small shelf and putting both of the tables together.  I thought I knew wear the large table was going, but changed my mind.  Perhaps I need to change it back.  At this point I think I am rather glad that I am the one doing all the moving and moving again, because I think I would be embarrassed if I was doing this to someone else.

I put my area rugs out on the driveway to get rained on and cleaned, so that I could move them downstairs when they were dry.  Unfortunately it has been raining so much that the rugs won't dry and are beginning to smell.  Tomorrow I'll have to work at laying them out on the deck and using the shopvac to suck most of the water out of them.  I really need to get them downstairs and into place so that I can move on and get the art room and downstairs office functioning.  I'm starting my third month here and it really bothers me that I still have so much unpacking and decorating to do.


FOCUS           BALANCE            ENGAGE            COMPLETE

Garage Sale Weekend

With a successful garage sale week end behind me, I need to turn my focus to the basement.  I need to move my downstairs office to a better spot and move my storage to the other side of the basement.   The extra washer has to be moved from a corner in the front of the house to the diagonal corner in the back of the house so that we can hook it up and use it when I dye fabric.  I am not sure how it is going to get there, I just know that it has to.  I think I'll talk to the guy that mows my lawn next week and see if he will help me out.  The rest of the moving I can do on a good day

Today is not a good day.  Setting up, working, and taking down the garage sale was a lot of work and I woke up with a back ache and a few other aching muscles.  In spite of that I have gotten quite a few bins, boxes and two shelves moved.  I am cleaning the floor and waiting for that to dry before moving anything else, slowly digging out the washer and setting up the storage/workroom.  This s the month that the basement will be finished, with everything in the right place. 

It'll feel so good to not have boxes in my kitchen, or anywhere else except storage.  Two room are done except for hanging some pictures and some other decorating.  I don't think my sewing room is every finished, but it is moving along nicely.  I am able to fix the work patterns more as I get more projects marked off the list.

I'll be able to have a good wrapping station set up downstairs for mailing anything that sells and all of my stock in one place for a change.  I'm actually going to have to buy some more bins soon, which oddly enough feels good.  I'd be glad if more things were selling, but if I am doing fairs this fall and winter I will need to have enough stock to make the tables look good.

Closing the business books at the end of these months has been a little too easy.  I will need that to change very quickly, I am not too discouraged.  I have a comfortable amount of money put away still and I have some great prospects for sewing. 

Quilters group is tomorrow.  I wish they actually did things together, but at least it gives me the space to cut fabric and get projects ready to sew.  Not really a sense of community, but that's okay, I'll feel more a part of the group the more often I go. 

I do need to find a book club still.  And some people that enjoy board games for a night of fun once in a while.  One step at a time.  By fall, maybe things will feel better.

FOCUS                 BALANCE                     ENGAGE                    COMPLETE

 

Stephen Covey
Begin with the end in mind.