Making the bed

I wonder what is special about making the bed that makes me feel so well.

I feel acomplished, I feel whole, balanced, normal, powerful.

I feel that I can do all things.

I've been reading about it and I found this, taken from a video, about the benefits of making the bed:

• Boosts Mental Well-being & Productivity: Starting the day with a completed task provides a "small win" that can trigger a domino effect of other productive behaviors.
• Reduces Stress & Creates Calm: An unmade bed can feel chaotic; making it creates a sense of order and calm, improving your mood and reducing anxiety.
• Improves Sleep Quality: A neat, organized bedroom environment promotes better sleep hygiene.
• Encourages Better Habits: Making the bed acts as a "keystone habit," often leading to higher self-discipline and better organization in other areas of life.
• Hygiene & Maintenance: It allows bedding to air out and, by covering sheets, reduces the amount of dust that settles on them. 
• Making the bed is viewed as a foundational act of self-care, demonstrating to oneself that they are worth the effort of creating a calm, orderly space.

 Also:

• Starts Your Day with Discipline- we all fight the uphill battle of being disciplined. When you do something simple like make your bed every day it bolsters your ability to make the tough decisions in other areas you are trying to being disciplined. It says to yourself, “I am and will be a disciplined person today.”
• Sends a Message to Your Life- Nothing sends a signal to your life that you are an orderly person that leaves things better than they were before like making your bed. I’ve even become so convinced of the power in this that I make my bed when staying at hotels (which I do quite too often).
• Kickstarts a Sense of Accomplishment- By making your bed you will feel as if you already crossed something off your to-do list before you even get dressed! Can’t beat that! For those compulsive to-do listers (like myself) you can always write it down and then cross off at the top your list when making your list for the day. Score one for me! (told you I was a sick man)
• Helps Initiate Your Bedtime Routine- The final thought is in regards to your evening bedtime routine. Pulling down the sheets does something powerful to your mind and body by sending the vibe that bedtime has come. There is a reason they pull down the sheets at a luxury hotel. Build your own luxury feel and prepare yourself for bed by putting down the sheets and getting into an organized and comfy bed.(https://medium.com/@joelstockstill/6-reasons-why-making-your-bed-is-so-important-a1cd22b0c005)

And now all this takes us to an important detail: 

• to make the bed as soon as our feet touch the floor, as Flylady says, or to wait a bit so tha bed can be aired?

As for me it's impossible to make it when it's still hot, I must air it and only after that I make it, unless I'm going to travel and there's no time to wait.

I found an article defending my point of view and I was very pleased with that.

What's your take on that ? Immediately or minutes later?

And is it important to you to make the bed in the morning? Why?

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About colours

What about your colours? What do you like?

I must say that I am not the kind of person that chooses bright colours.

Don't think now that I am against those colours or people who prefer them, I'm only talking about what I like.

Let me tell you first that I follow my own path. I like when people agree with me but I don't mind at all when they disagree and that doesn't make me change my way and my opinions.

So, anyway, don't feel that I'm criticizing somebody by writing what I will.

 So, having that in mind, I will say that I prefer the pastel colours. Cream, beige.

 

 Very light pink and green. 

And navy blue. And dark green. And very dark red, the colour of dark wine.

Brown too. Never black.

I don't wear bright colours not for lack of confidence but for a lot of it, I dare to wear what I find elegant and nice, what is related to me, with the way I am, with what I am.

In the kitchen I like to have orange and yellow and green. And brown. White also.

I must say that I don't like at all grey in the house. At all !

I like this:

No, my house is not that grand 😄, I'm just posting it because I find it soo beautiful. (credits clicking on each picture)

I do wear grey mixed with bordeaux or navy blue, but in the house, like the sofas and such, no, at all, I can't stand that foggy feeling that it gives me just for looking at pictures of houses with that colour.

Well, each person has her own tastes and it's related with the soul of each of us.

So, keep doing what you want and what you like and don't mind at all what other people think of that - that's what I do.

PS: I don't care about fashion, I do what I want.

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Restart

I read at the Afternoon Coffe and Evening Tea a sentence that I agree the most and that I will remember as it is so inspiring:

The beginning is always today

That reminds me what Flylady says:

What's wrong with now?

and

Jump in where you are

Those two last sentences have been helping me for ages and now I will add the first one that says that the beginning is today. Always.

Truly we need to not beat ourselves each time we fall off the wagon because, as Flylady says, there is no wagon, you just jump in where you are.

And I keep doing that, jumping in. Restarting.

Maybe someone who reads this is thinking about times that it happened to her. Maybe it happens often. Never mind, never give up on you. Get up, trust, life is not a reaching point, it's a way of traveling, sometimes we are better, sometimes not so good but after each fall, rise up.

As for me I'm having the intention of getting better in many things and I will do what I can to be like that, even if some days are not so sucessful, there are other that are better.

And one of the things that I want to do is to take Flylady more serious again, even if I do it my way.

Her teachings are not the Sacred Scriptures, we can disagree in some things and want to do differently, but in the whole, it's a good system that I discovered in 2001.

So, what are you waiting for? Just start.

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I am a resistant

I'm not a person inclined to trends, to fashion, on my clothes and the house - and mentality!

I am a resistant. 

I never try to please or I am afraid to displease. Reading this you may think I am a difficult person, intransigent and unpleasent. Well, I will tell you that it depends on the tastes of the people around me and I know some like me.

I am classic, conservative and I follow my lead, my tastes and I look for and get together, in person or online, with likeminded people.

In that note I will say that I never care about what is the trend in anything, so I dress in a classical way, with some clothes that could have been worn in the fourties and fifties and the begining of the sixties.

 

                   

    

Pensil skirts, pleated or softly circled. Sweters, pullovers, cardigans with round or v-necks. With scarves. Or blouses inside. Never trousers, only inside the home when it's cold. Reasonable lent shorts when it's hot. But never outside.

If it's not summer I wear tights, always, transparent or opaque.

My shoes are like these:

  

never pointed, never square, always round, black, blue or it can be of a pastel colour

 

Always flat or low heels for the health of my column.

And the house.

I like this kind of kitchen.

And everything that evokes that feeling.

            

        

And I always hang our clothes on the line.

It's a way of living and I'm not alone in that.

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