inspiration for a well curated life

 
 

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Simply supper in the sunshine. This needed something in it for scale - the bowl is about a foot across (and isn't just for me, I hasten to add). 🍝 This is such an easy dinner, the sauce consists of frying every sad vegetable in the bottom of the fridge and adding tinned tomatoes and herbs.
My Haiku Theory of Life has been percolating away gently in the back of my mind for about two years now, and since it was encapsulated neatly in my latest mood board, I thought it was about time it made its way into the light. Come and read about it on the blog at www.appliedstyle.co.uk - direct link in my profile.
Just three. Sometimes, that’s as much as I want, or need. And not just when it comes to flowers. ✏️ No day is complete without a to do list. Indeed, I am completely reliant on my lists (which I manage in a bullet journal, on which more another day) in order to achieve anything at all. Sometimes, however, I have been known to be just a teeny weeny bit ambitious with my lists, and they can run into the tens of items, any one of which might be a fairly significant item on its own. Most of the time, I’m pretty good at prioritising what needs doing and I don’t mind that half the list gets carried over to another day. But sometimes I find it a bit stressful, and feel thoroughly unproductive even as I cross off ten or more items, because I have made scarcely any headway through my list. ✏️
On those days, I know it’s time to revert to three. Just three things on my list which will make a big difference to my day and my workload, and will enable me to feel that I am making progress. Once those three are done, anything else is a huge bonus, not a chore. This isn’t an original idea - the book The One Thing is based on a similar principle (but, um, with just one thing. Obviously) and the idea of giving oneself less to do in order to feel a greater sense of achievement is hardly revolutionary - but I do find that three things on my list strikes the balance between overwhelm and actually getting stuff done.
This is such a big part of why I do what I do.