Today I’m sitting on my deck absolutely loving the sunshine. It is simply awesome — especially after the long cold windy winter we’ve had. I know it’s going to be cold again tomorrow but this teaser gives me inspiration to endure some more of that.

The amount of wind we’ve had has sent me into virtual hibernation — I stopped my daily walks because they’d become a battle and there was no pleasure in it at all. So for the past weeks I’ve only been doing what I had to.
Now I am inspired to get walking again, I’ve done some work in my garden and anticipating a productive vege patch coming on. On Saturday we purchased paint for the outside of the house so I’m really looking forward to getting that started — especially knowing that it will be a lot easier to paint this house than the last one. I’ve also had the spring cleaning bug and the house is starting to look much tidier.

What I’m finding interesting is that when you don’t do much you don’t have the inclination to do more or stretch yourself. I hadn’t worked for almost ten months because of my medical conditions, but now I’m easing back to my casual retail work and it’s feeling good. Tiring — though that’s understandable after not really doing anything physical for so long. I also had a sales business but that went into steep decline when I became ill. After time away from that it becomes difficult to regain the enthusiasm and because I hadn’t made any sales I was gently moved on.
It’s one thing having something like that in the background, knowing if I really exerted myself I could earn more dollars, but when it’s gone, along with that comes the realisation that the avenue to earn extra has evaporated too!
So being moved on has turned into a blessing as it made me reassess all that I have going on around me. I’ve been blind to some possibilities — probably because they were so obvious! When I really looked at what I had, I realised that there was already a business I could run with — my passion for oils had seen me dabbling with them. I’ve long been a carer — as a nurse for over thirty years, then a leader with a weight loss company and now I’m inspired to continue in that vein and share my love of the oils.

So I’ve been busy for the past couple of weeks — which is why I’ve been absent on the blogging front. But I’m getting my life back in order — it probably won’t be like it was before I got sick, but it’s the life I have now and I’m planning on enjoying as much of it as possible.