Good Enough...

Yesterday was a one star day.

I set up three things to get stars when I decided to go back to actual stars. I've had, in the past, as many as 6 things I was tracking, but this time I went broad strokes. So three are up for grabs each day. Working out. Writing. Clearing the Chore To Do List.

I did not write. As you know since nothing showed up in your inbox. You're welcome for the breather.

I did not finish out the chore list. I could not bring myself to mop. Partly because I had some extra cooking to do yesterday and finding a time where I wasn't in the kitchen doing something else, or the vacuum wasn't scheduled to run wasn't lining up, but mostly when I had a spare chunk of time to do it I chose to watch an episode of Drag Race UK.

So I got the work out star.

It was my first one star day of the year. And I really fought the urge to run in to the office and knock out a quick post then mop super fast to get those other two. But in the end I shrugged my shoulders and thought...good enough.

And that's going to be something I want you all to hold on to over the next few years. Find your good enough. Days where it's all stars all the time and everything is easy are going to be there. But there are going to be days where you are just stuck in the slog of disbelief as to what is happening. And on those days find your good enough. You got out of bed? Good enough. You managed to head in to work (even if heading in is still a walk down the hallway to the home office) good enough. You made a meal? Fantastic. You ordered GrubHub? Cool. You survived another day. That's good enough. Still counts. Get that star.

Survival star. Every day is a sparkly star on the survival chart. And that's good enough.

Next week is going to be a shit show. It just is. He's said he's going to have an avalanche of executive orders to start. They are starting mass deportations on Tuesday and it's going to be flashy and for show on their media networks. Think a bad episode of Cops. They are still rolling with the confirmation hearings, or the yes we are loyal to dear leader testimonials as they have all turned out to be. It's going to be a hard week. The first of many to come.

Find your good enough for the week and hold on tight.

Mine? It's going to be chore list, workout, writing. Reaching for my stars. However many of them I get in a day will be fine.

I'm not watching on Monday. I see no need. I have a few newsletters that I read to keep up with things, but I think next week I will read Heather Cox Richardson and let the rest go. I don't need, you don't need, we all don't need, the constant barrage of what the fuck that is coming our way. My advice is to let the dust settle a little, pay attention to someone you trust to give you the highlights, and just let the rest be for as long as you need to.

I had coffee with a friend last week and she said her strategy is to only pay attention to and worry about the things she has power of change over. Which is a great piece of advice. Try really hard not to worry about everything as it hits. Most of it you cannot do a thing about. But those things you can effect change over? Those things need your attention.

As always I'll be rage blogging about the things that piss me off the most. I'll (hopefully) be nonsense blogging about some fun things as well. And my biggest hope of all I have some fiction pop into my head that I can focus on. It's always nice to visit a world where I do have control over everything.

As for the rest?

Good enough.