Light House Life Lessons

The prompt for this week’s Five Minute Friday is fly. When I saw this I knew it was meant to be the kind of fly that you do in an airplane, but that is not what popped into my head when I saw that prompt.

My brain thought of the kind of FLY that FlyLady talks about.

Finally
Love
Yourself

This is something all of us could stand to learn. You know what I mean. You hear those negative voices in your head when you look in the mirror. You probably buy new clothes and shoes for everyone else in the family and think you don’t really need anything. We think of everyone else first before we think about what we need.

I have learned to do little things to take care of myself. One is to rub body butter into my feet every day before I put my socks and shoes on. I couldn’t believe it the first time my podiatrist told me I had beautiful, healthy feet. She gushes over them every time I go see her. I looked at her sideways the first time she said it and asked, “Are you looking at the same feet I am?” She said she was serious. She apparently has to look at a lot of really scaly and crusty feet every day. She told me to keep doing whatever I was doing because the skin looked very healthy and had good color. So this summer when you are wearing flip-flops or sandals make sure you are rubbing lotion or something into your feet, if not when you put your shoes on, then after you wash your feet or take your shower and just before you get into bed at night. You too can have beautiful feet. Take care of yourself. Replace the negative messages running through your head with positive ones. Be kind to yourself.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Fly
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

Return was the word given as a prompt last Friday. Every time I sat down to write for 5 minutes on the word, something sidetracked me. I kept returning to the task all week with the same results. Now I return one last time to either write this or give up and miss writing one of the Five Minute Friday prompts, which I have not done since I started. Streaking is big with me. I set a routine and I don’t like to break it, you know what I mean?

I find myself returning to the days when money was tight and we saved it wherever we could. So I have been cooking at home instead of eating out for the last few months. I returned to making the green smoothies every night (well, 5 or 6 nights each week anyway) so we would have breakfast ready to go each morning. I find I am really enjoying knowing I have the fruits and veggies handled so early in the day. It makes me feel like the eating for the day will go well when I do that.

I also returned to following FlyLady a little more closely. I feel like if I plan out my goals and follow the baby steps to reach them I will be successful in achieving them. I am even setting daily reading goals because there are so many books I want to read before the library demands them back. I figure out how long I have till they make me return it and how many pages I must read each day so I can finish the book before I return it. This is actually working. It is almost like giving myself homework, but really it is about giving my brain focus instead of letting it flit around willy nilly.

What can you return to that will help get your life back under control?

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Return
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.