Timetobeme's Blog

I just saw the title of my one and only post for thius year. I was so determined to make it THE year I did all the things.

Did it happen. Nope.

I am the ultimate romantic when it comes to the new year. THIS YEAR will be the best ever, I will accomplish all these things, and it will be amazing.

Now I do not appologize for that approach to the new year. I think it is a good thing to be optimistic when starting a new year, absolutely. However, I need to be a bit more realistic as to what I want to accomplish.

I agree with the premise that we should always aim higher than we think we can get because maybe you will accomplish more than if you aim low . However, there is a point when we can aim a bit too high and then get discouraged by not meeting our goals.

This year has been a personal struggle for me. Please do not get me wrong, my life is great, everything is good. Marriage, family and even finances are good. BUT, I am struggling with what I want to do with my life, what I want to accomplish and how in the heck do I even do that ?

I want to lose weight to get rid of my metabolic syndrome and all the accompaning pre conditions that it causes. Food has always been an issue for me. Food addiction is a real thing, and carbs are my big issue ,but low carb never works for me.

My husband and I started the year on weight watchers and we were doing great, no real reason why we just went off of it right in the middle of doing great. Just stupid old addictions to the foods that ww limits is the best I can come up with.

Now, here we are ending what could have been a successful year of losing weight and getting healthier no better off than when we started and that is so damn discouraging to me.

So, we are going to get back on ww watchers again. This time fight through the addictions and stay on track for both of our health issues. Everything we are dealing with is diet related. Blood sugar, blood pressure, prostate issues for my husband and we need to take it seriously. So, we are going to take the last few weeks of the year and finish up the items in the house that we will most likely not be eating on ww. Some are considered healthy, like oats, and brown rice, but they are point heavy in the ww plan and we want to eliminate them come Jan 1 or eat much less of them. We will have some fun on the holidays but with a lot of adjustments. Desserts made with gluten free flour, lower fat and sugar free. Meals for the holidays will be healthier versions of what we love, with a few fun exceptions like Christmas morning breakfast and tamales on Christmas eve.

My goal is this time next year for us to be in a great place with some successes behind us and much better habits and routines and continued success ahead of us .

Need to figure out what I want to do creatively. Writing has always been a passion but when our kids were little it was very hard to write and that is when I started to crochet, and then do bead work, hobbies that were uneffected by the constant interuptions of four kids.

Now, I am in my sixties but for at least another year and a half to two years, and the past year, babysitting two of our grand kids five days a week. All day Monday through Thursday and until just after noon on Friday and of course weekends off. So, the struggle is back on what to do.

The difference now is technology. I had no computers back when our kids were small. Once we had internet, there were not many things to do on there back in 1996, not like today !!

I have a YouTube channel, in fact a few of them, several blogs, and a couple of online shops to sell both my hand made items and to resell treasures I find out in the wild. A bit scattered I would say. Too many things to do any of them well.

My husband wants to retire within two years , around 64 years old and we want to have some passive income. 

I need to decide what my priority should be . My channel ? Reselling, which is not passive at all, writing, both blogs and books. Creating things to sell. I just cannot decide.

When the kids are here it is very hard to write. The three year old constantly interupts me and just does not get the concept of wait a minute if I am in the middle of something. He wants my attention NOW, and that is that. It will get easier over time, but I will also be done sitting about the time he gets easier like his sister who is six and very easy.

So, writing much and recording for my channel are off the table when they are here. On my husbands days off, he has a rotating schedule, he is happy to give me a day or two to work on things I cannot do when he is at work, and he will be in charge of the kids.

Do I just list resellable items, or do I make things to sell ? I just do not know what I want to do. My husband also sells on Ebay so that helps.

So, 2024 will be a discovery year. What do I love to do?What are my strengths and weaknesses ? What can I easily do with the kids here ,and what do I have to plan on doing when they are not here on the weekends?

What type of content do I want to do on my channel for me, not for how many people will watch, but for me to enjoy doing and those that find it and enjoy it ,great, but if no one does, and I make those videos for myself an the few subscribers I can count on, that is what I need to do.

I do have to get organized. My studio and resell room are stuffed full of treasures and it makes it hard to move .

I am so blessed to have so many amazing things to create with, but my issue is too much for the room. I have to figure out a better way to organize myself so I can create and store the things I love the most. f

Like the studio above, the resell room is stuffed full of both supplies and things to sell. I have decided that many things in this room will have to go to a yard sale and will not be sellable online any longer. A new app called whatnot has given influencers a way to sell a lot of stuff in live auctions, mostly very cheap and those items just do not sell well on Ebay any more. I do not have a following that would allow me to do whatnot successfully , nor do I want to sell a hundred things in one night live, even if I could, so about half my items are no longer viable on Ebay so I can get back all my money and even some profit at yard sales. So, just have to find a place to store the stuff if I pack it up, that is the problem. We have a fairly new shed that was supposed to be my resell shed and we decided we would put yard sale stuff in it and then once we had the sales it would be a resale room.

Last year did not go as planned and all our grown kids yard sale stuff and some of ours have that room stuffed so there is no more room to put what I need in there. Mainly because it is not put in there in an organized fashion.

This is the resell room in all its disorganized glory. Let me be clear, all listed items are organized, just the non listed are a mess.

My priorities for next year are to prioritize.

I do believe organizing and purging come first. 

Yard sales to sell all we can is next. 

Stop buying stuff is actually top, unless it is a resell item too good to pass up, but those are rare.

Luckily the first few months of the year here in North Texas there are no yard sales and thrift shops are very bare, so that will make it quite easy to do that for sure.

I need to list and move as much as possible. Start creating and using all the materials I have .

Get on Weight Watchers and see it through the year.

Figure out what I love to do, and just do it. Writing, filming, creating, whatever is the outlet that I find the most joy in, I need to pursue it.

Time management is key to all of this working and staying on top of what needs to be done first.

Household stuff before creating.

Less screen time, more work and creative time.

Read more , watch less videos.

Make this year really count.

If you made it this far, thank you so much. As always, I love to hear any suggestions or personal stories of how you dealt with this situation !!