A Fresh Start in 2018

As I alluded to in my Faves yesterday, New Year's gives us a chance for a fresh start.  I, for one, could use a fresh start!  I feel that way most years, but especially this year.  I'm definitely feeling my age, and last year was a heavy one both mentally and physically.  But it's a new year, y'all, and I am inspired!  

 While freezing all day on Tuesday, and procrastinating because it was too cold to do anything, I found a great deal of inspiration online! Here are a few of my favorites:





Ok, I'm sorry, I just think the one about the leggings is hilarious!  I had to include that one!  There were so many others, but these all really spoke to me, especially the last one: Just start!  I have a tendency to be a perfectionist, and one of the inspirational nuggets I "pocketed" from the internet said, "Perfectionism is a root cause of procrastination".  I whole-heartedly believe this, at least as it relates to me.  I can't tell you how often I can't "move" on something because it may not be perfect.  

 This blog is a great example.  I have a draft saved from March 2016, MARCH 2016, PEOPLE, which says: So...next month.  It's really almost here.  I'll say it out loud.  I am turning 50 in April.  I was visiting with my friend Kim today, telling her all of these mature thoughts I had been having lately.  I said to her, "I don't know where this is coming from!" and she told me it was because I was 50.  She said I was becoming wise in my old age, or at least losing my filter! As she was nursing the lump on her head from where I knocked her out (I'm kidding of course), she said to me, "You need to get that blog up and running!  It's clear you have a lot to say, and I'll read it!"  I have literally been talking about this blog for over two years, and just sitting on it, because it wasn't yet perfect.  So....I decided to just start writing (after much urging/pestering from Kim as well as the Blogger's box for a Christmas present) and the crazy beautiful site will come later.  Just start!

Now, that is inspiring...and freeing!  It's a new year, is there something or many things you need to "just start"?


Comments

  1. Cynthia BrasJanuary 4, 2018 at 7:10 AM

    Candee... congrats on your blog... I'll be tuning in! If you haven't read Shauna Niequist's book, Present over Perfect, you should. It is such a significant read. Look forward to your posts. :)

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    1. Candee HolmesJanuary 4, 2018 at 12:01 PM

      Thank you, Cynthia! I will definitely check it out! In Creative Memories (scrapbooking way back when...) they used to say "Done is better than perfect". I cannot tell you how many times I had to recite that when working on a page!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 4, 2018 at 11:37 AM

    Love this! I have start writing in a more serious way this year. I have invited to be a regular writer for a Christian Women's Blog and it has help jump start me to work on my own book which I have been outtting off for over 10 years!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 4, 2018 at 11:38 AM

      *putting

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    2. Candee HolmesJanuary 4, 2018 at 12:03 PM

      That is awesome, Chaundelle! I can't wait to read. I think "Just Start!" is a good motto for 2018. Let's do it!

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  3. AmyJanuary 9, 2018 at 4:03 PM

    Best way to "just start" is to bring people along with you! So yesterday, I "just started" cutting out sugar (again) and I'm bringing my family along. Ha! Wanna eat at my house, you don't get sugar. ;) Here's to "just starting" something in 2018! :)

    Now. Who's gonna drink all that wine we bought when Wendell and I made separate and unknowing trips to Sam's and Costco and BOTH restocked the cabinet supply...?? #oops

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