I feel better when the house is in order. Not having it in order leaves me constantly with unease.
It’s like a gnawing anxiety that hovers.
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I have read Havi Brook’s site for awhile and love her stuff even if sometimes I am not on the same page as her. I love how she has taken the “out of the box” thinking and made a living and origami out of that fucking box. Yah. Like that.
She has a whole concept of “The Book of You” and I was thinking I had a few entries for me.
Just things I have noticed over time. And I’m going to make a category on the right there for entries that I think are Book of Me material. I would put this in a big ol paper book but as I noticed recently those things seem more temporary that the illusion of a digital storage place.
I was listening to a droopy E-harmony or Match.com commercial and they were saying it matched that girl with someone with her core values. So I was thinking. I know I have core values, but I don’t think I would recognize them if they rolled up and bumped me in bum. So I just wanted to start at the beginning and ask myself – what is truly important to me as a woman, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, colleague, partner, step-Mother – all of it?
Truth
Acceptance
Hope
Family/Friends who are family too
Compassion
Connection to Spirit
Growth
Learning
There are a bunch more on a list I found but can’t decide if I like them more or less. Financial Security sounds like a good one, but I have consistently sacrificed security for risk and growth.
Adventure (not really)
Balance (more of a goal then a value to me)
Confidence (I bump up into this one as ego)
Control (I struggle with this one a lot)
Creativity (I used to think I was creative, now I’m just a smart ass)
Discipline (bwahahahahahaha)
Financial Security (see above)
Freedom (umm – I like to know where the lines are)
Fulfillment (seems narcissistic to me)
Forgiveness (I like it but it’s not a value to me)
Fun (goal not a value to me)
God (Spirit is this to me)
Happiness (this is a choice)
Health
Honesty (I value truth over honesty as I think one is a choice and one is a value)
Humor
Independence
Integrity
Kindness
Knowledge
Marriage
Peace of mind
Power
Progress
Reason
Security
Self-reliance
Service
Spirituality
Strength
Success
Truth
Wisdom