Last week we had our kitchen repainted.
We had a leak come in through a gap in the tiles a while ago and it left some brown marks on the ceiling.
And with general wear and tear, it was looking, as my wife had been saying for months, “very tired”.
On the morning the painter was due, we had a mad rush of removing everything from the kitchen into the dining room.
Everything off the sides, pictures off the walls and taking the clock down.
Before that clock came down, if you’d have asked me how many times a day I looked at it, I would have guessed something along the lines of a dozen or so.
Repeatedly looking up at a blank wall has shown me just how frequently I did look at that clock.
Ridiculously often to be honest.
It’s taken losing it to realise how much I used it.
As is the same with a lot of things.
It’s tempting in life to not do what needs to be done to stand still.
Because that doesn’t feel very exciting, does it?
Maintaining our current income, energy levels, body shape and mood and mental health doesn’t fill us with that same spark that making positive changes to them does, does it?
But when any of those things start to sliding the opposite direction, we soon miss them, don’t we?
If our income drops, it’s a challenge.
Life is much less enjoyable if our energy levels and / or mood slip backwards, isn’t it?
Carrying even more weight around makes everything harder, doesn’t it?
I get it.
Forward progress is more exciting.
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We don’t always realise what we’ve got until it’s gone.
Much love,
Jon ‘My eldest flooded the bathroom the next day hours before we had friends due and my wife nearly had a heart attack’ Hall
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