I have to admit that when I first saw this prompt, my first inclination was to declare that NOTHING worked this year. That this year had been a dumpster fire and that it was best that everyone forget all about 2018. Once I started flipping back through my planner I could see I found a few things worked and some that did not.
What Worked
Exercising– If you had told me a few years ago that I would grow to love working out I would have laughed a very long while and proclaim..oh please you couldn’t pay me enough to do any exercise. Yet here we are! Now I consider part of getting ready for the day. At the moment I am working through Daily Burn’s True Beginner, and according to my Fitbit, I do get into the fat burning zone so yay for that AND it helps keep the depression and anxiety at bay.
Hiring a house cleaner – I am a firm believer in that we should all operate from our zone of genius and cleaning house is NOT one of my strengths. This year I gave up and hired someone to come and do it. I couldn’t have been happier!
Learning how to budget- I know what you are thinking. You DONT KNOW HOW TO BUDGET YET? Well growing up poor in Central Appalachia making a long-term budget was never really taught and that’s probably why everyone is broke. The final straw was when a group of friends wanted to go on vacation, and I had already spent a lot of o money from freelancing. I took a long hard look, and I realized that I was no longer broke per se but rather I blew through money to my bank account only had some tumbleweeds in it. I know the basics though so next year I am gonna study and read some finance books and some money mindset books because no matter how much money you have if you feel broke you are still broke.
All my Young Living stuff– I have a shit ton of Young Living stuff. It is not just oils either but shampoo, soap and cleaning stuff. Almost everything you can think of Young Living has it. Aside from my immune system attacking my thyroid, I haven’t been sick a day since starting my Young Living journey. Even when we had all that pollen back in the fall, I diffused Raven every day and no sinus infection for me!
My Desire Map Planner- This planner is what convinced me that this year has been good even if I did feel like shit. I looked back through the gratitude parts, and I am like WOW I AM blessed, and I had no idea.
And last but not least my implants- OMG When I first woke up from surgery and for six months after I was like this is a huge mistake but now??? I love my implants. They have opened up a whole world that previously had been denied to me. I love my audiobooks and podcasts. I love being able to use Skype and Zoom
What Did not work
The minute clinic “dr” at CVS or the clinic for the poor and insuranceless people– In my defense I thought that the minute clinic dr would be fast cheap and easy.. like me heh heh anyway I had a rash on my face and I am kinda vain, and I also hate waiting three hours to see a dr, so I went to the Min clinic which diagnosed me with impetigo.. THREE TIMES..after I told them I went to the gym every day. They told me that gyms are a hotbed of germs, so they gave me some antibiotics- THREE TIMES and off I went. Then my knees started hurting, and after the min clinic told me it was runners knee I rested it for a month it hurt WORSE, and the rash was horrible. So mom was like get thee ass to a “real” DR again I was looking for fast cheap and easy, so I went to what I like to call the poor man clinic where I went from runners knee to arthritis and impetigo to maybe Lupus. Yeah, they were waaaay off base. I called it quits moved back in with my parent’s mom took me to HER dr who was a traditional dr in a conventional clinic, and all of THAT I told her everything and I found out that the rash was psoriasis and everything else was an autoimmune thyroid thingie. My family won’t let me ever forget how I tried to save money and how i went to a fake Dr.
Isolating myself– I honestly thought that I was OK with not being around people. I had myself classified as an extreme introvert nut as I later found out t this was not the case. I had depression and being an introvert confused. One my depression cleared up I became more outgoing as long as it was not cold outside. I don’t care how starved for attention I may be I am NOT going outside in frigid and snowy days.
Not knowing how much time it would take me to complete a client project– you know how you have little pockets of time that you could be productive kinda if only you knew what took 10 mins vs. what take two hours. If I had been smarter, I would have timed myself with Toggl, and then I would know that it took me about two hours to write up a post but only five minutes to do something else. I didn’t start keeping up with timing myself until November 2018, but I do it all day now.