9 things...

There are things I haven't yet figured out how to do. And, in fact, I wonder if I'll ever figure out:

1. How to make myself eat the vegetables in the plastic bags from the super market without being turned off by them a day or two later and getting fresh vegetables during lunch instead. In other words, how to not waste money.

2. How to keep my room consistently organized for more than a week without having to do a massive clean every Sunday.

3. How to keep avoiding dairy, white flower and things that are bad for me in proportionate amounts throughout the year, so that I'm not going from a size 12 to a size 9 back to a size 11 and then on the verge of a 13, and getting queasy and nauseous in between.

4. How to follow up on those things I always say I want to do, but never get around to; like getting better at riding a bike and being able to use it as a viable means of transportation; like getting fit enough to go hiking with my athletic friends without wanting to have a heart attack 3/4's of the way there; like getting good at the guitar and fighting through my fear of theory through to see new horizons of musicality.

5. How to stop being such a people pleaser! I must admit, I am getting better at saying no and articulating my boundaries, but I still find that I build my thoughts around how happy others might be, especially in my professional life.

6. How to fight the temptation of getting over priced coffee at a coffee shop in the morning before work as part of my daily ritual.

7. How to be a better daughter.

8. How to sift through all the clutter in my head filled with thoughts, ideas, wants, to-do lists without having them all smudge together in one big mush, causing me to take drastic measures to figure it all out, by creating color coded charts and storing a zillion and two calendars, organizers and planners.

9. How to want to take out the trash when I get home from work-I can take it out of the poor over-worked trash can and tie it in a nice knot, but to take it downstairs?! C'mon! Huge task!
Ridiculous.
I know. (I'm also not the only contributor in this scenario)

"Purity of heart is to will one thing"