Wish Cast Wednesday - What Rules do I Wish to Make or Break

The rule I wish to make is to simplify.  I think this is a good rule for me & I'd really like to actively apply it to my life.  I tend to have every moment busy, then sigh & feel resentful that there is not enough time in the day to do the things I WANT to do.  I sign up for this class & that, & I become overwhelmed by them, trying to fit them into my life with the other busyness of being a mom and a wife, and having a job.  I don't enjoy them like I should.  I don't know if I'm pulling enough out of them for the money that is invested in taking them. 

This goes for my home too - no impulse buying, or buying in bulk, but having just enough.  Enough food, enough clothes, enough extra curricular activities.  If I don't buy any unneccessay, unneeded items, then I don't have to find a home for it in my house.  I don't have to wash it, put it away, take care of it.  Those obligations are always in the forefront of my mind, having to care of the house and the duties it requires before I can play.  There is somthing to say about being sparse. 

A few years ago, I read an Oprah magazine, & she had an exercise where we had to come up with aa affirmation. I had a great one!  I wish I could remember it all.  The part I remember is "Stuff does not define me".  Do I really want people looking at me & saying WOW!  She's got that fabulous new camera!  She carries an i-phone! Coach bag! Wears the latest fashons! Oh! Are those Jimmy Choo's on her feet?  I saw her coming out of Nordstoms. NO!  I don't.  I want people to like me for me, not the things I own or don't own.  I want them to see what makes me special & unique.  I want them to see the divinity with in me, & I think one way to is for me to simplify.  Otherwise I'll always be preoccupied, stressed, & rushing off to complete the task at hand.