I have way too many heroes, folks whose books I devour over and over again, it’s a tough job to keep my spirits up at times when I seem to be faced with so many obstacles and challenges each day.

A favorite author of mine, Og Mandino who I have to read slowly so as to better comprehend his thoughts tells us all,

“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”

No kidding, brother.

Even as I flit from chore to chore my mind is always churning, trying to strategize, make plans, fit everything in each day and get it all done.

I had an absolute cow last night at bedtime when I found that most of my kids must have merely aimed for a concentric circle around the trashcan, not in it.

“Pick this mess up!” I’d hollered with outrage. Oh my goodness, we’d barely gotten the kitchen swept that day as soccer had sucked up every free hour and then I’d wanted to enjoy cooler weather and run outside to save seeds for next year. Using bowls from the kitchen I’d collected hundreds of cleome and four o’clock flower seeds which may have been a colossal waste of my time as they self-seed anyway faster than I can fling them everywhere. There’s just something so comforting to me to know all winter that I’ve saved up an excess for next season.

That’s not necessarily a good example of using my time wisely unless one considers how hard it sometimes is to maintain one’s sanity amidst a family full of convoluted thinkers. If rolling large seeds between my fingers comforts me, maybe it’s not a bad idea to invest some time there.

Obviously I find comfort in writing, I set out to write a post about time management based on Og Mandino’s quote but instead I demonstrated my own hyperactive behavior and thought processes and got hung up on seed saving which is another passion of mine.

It’s a wonder I get anything done around here