Making the Right Decision

We're faced with decisions every day - what pants to wear, what to feed our kids for lunch, and what step to take next in our lives. I have a habit of planning 6 steps ahead, and this can be both wonderfully optimistic and downright stressful. So the choice I made yesterday was to start making the right decision...this was also wonderfully optimistic and downright stressful!


I used to have a motto in university - it was "Go Hard, or Go Home." In a nutshell that means, give it all you've got, or don't bother. I have brought that motto with me to most aspects of my adult life - I give all of myself to others (someone needs something? I'm there!), I volunteer for a number of local organizations, I allow my kids to wake me up 6+ times a night, I work until I feel confident that everything is done, I continue with educating myself in the areas that I feel strongly about (mostly breastfeeding, babies, and mothering, but I also LOVE food!). My husband and I are also in the knee deep in the process of opening another local business, a bistro - and this takes a LOT of planning and creativity to get open, and stay under budget. But somewhere along the way, I forgot about me.


I forgot that I want to learn how to knit better, that I want to take my new baby girl to Mommy & Me events, that I want to take up painting even though I know nothing about it, that I want to train to swim competitively again (I'm a long way off from this one, but I can dream!), and that I love to write. I'm no literary genius, but I thoroughly enjoy it, and that's what's important. So my first "right decision" this week was to do something for me - yesterday I started this blog, today I'm taking the kids to get painting gear, and who knows what tomorrow will bring :). Any right decision you've made lately that was just for you?