Wow, did the summer pass as fast for you as it did for me? I have been attempting to catch up here as well as every where else for the past week. School started up again last week, which for me is always the signal to the end of ’summer’. Fortunately, that just means most of the touristas have returned to their northern abodes. I do follow a southern tradition, which is truly funny for most southerners realize this. I was born and raised in North Carolina and have lived my entire life within a two hundred mile range. I have visited many places from sea to shining sea (well desert really) and I have found that if a person moves from up north to down south, it takes at least five to ten years for them to adjust. Am I prejudiced that North Carolina has the best of a lot of things to see and do? Of course! I live almost as far east as you can live without dipping your toes in the water, but I grew up in the city of Cary, which is now Mecca to Research Triangle Park. I have traveled from the tip of Maine to the depths off of the Bahamas (literally), and as far west as Phoenix, Arizona and I notice one thing that doesn’t seem to naturally occur anywhere but here at home. People actually acknowledge you, they speak to you, they are truly interested in you when they ask about you and they answer you when you speak to them. And they remember what you say nine tenths of the time.
So, my point here is that the rest of the US needs to slow down, take a hard look at relaxing a bit more and paying more attention to what is going on around them.
Now, for today’s Tip of the New Year!
The neater you keep your office, your home, the faster you will find things. Whether that means filing once a day, putting clean dishes, clean clothing away, or if it means taking fifteen minutes to walk around the house or office and clean up messes, the only way to keep it so you can find what you are looking for is to genuinely spend time at doing it.
So today’s tip is Do Something! If, as above, that means putting things away, then Do It!
For the new school year, the new ecclesiastical year (if you are Orthodox) or just for a wonderful fresh start get busy now and enjoy the rewards later!