I have realized lately how much freedom simplicity brings. I have also realized how much complicating things has made consistency feel impossible.
If I feel the need to make everything from scratch, do a 5 hour food prep every Sunday, follow a very detailed schedule/plan for working out, have to drive 8 hours to adventure, have a clean house to have people over (and that being hard because of having too much stuff), feel the need to buy and make all of my personal care products and cleaners, have certain expectations on myself for hospitality, use complicated planners with stickers and erasable pens, and on and on, it’s hard to be consistent with any of it. Especially with an ADHD brain.
The more I complicate things, the harder it is to maintain, then I rebel when I let go of the complicated. It’s a constant cycle. It’s the same as the binge-restrict cycle with eating.
I’m so grateful to finally have the ADHD diagnosis. I don’t take medication for it because every single one I tried had crazy side effects for me, but knowing helps me learn how to manage it better.
Simple helps with intentionality as well. If I don’t have expectations about how something needs to be because they are more simple, I can focus more the things that matter, on my priorities (which I wrote about a few posts ago: True Simple Living and Priorities).
In summary, those priorities basically revolve around relationships, service, hospitality, adventure, teaching my kids well, and (imperfect/balanced) wellness.
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