One and Done

I’m still mulling over what we said yesterday about boundaries. I’ve been thinking about what mine are, what I want them to be, where I could do a little tweaking, stuff like that. But I don’t really have anything definitive yet. I do however have a success story!!

So one of the things on my “Radical Self Care ~ Stuff I Need” list is this:

• I haven’t mowed at all yet and it’s JULY!

This is a true story! June is over and I still haven’t mowed even one time! I have a push mower, I have a riding lawn mower… but nothing gets mowed.  I hate mowing. I really really hate mowing. A riding lawn mower should make things easy but I really hate getting on it. The whole thing makes me tired just to think about it. The grass is more than thigh high … it’s just stupid to never mow!

But here’s the thing! The mowing situation was the first thing that came to my mind when I was contemplating this project, and an “I Need” box… wondering how it would work. So, I thought about it. And I had two thoughts:

• What if I paid someone to mow?

Which of course is impossible since I live out in the middle of no where and no one in their right mind would want to touch it unless they had a brush hog… Plus the poison ivy is taking over… and most people are allergic… bla bla bla… (That was me talking myself out of hiring someone.)

• What if that someone was me?

I could hire myself!! I decided that if I was paid like… $100 to mow, I’d probably do it. So. I scrounged up 5 twenty dollar bills and handed them to my daughter and said. I want you to pay me to mow my grass. She burst out laughing… but agreed to buy me something cool and interesting with the money and I could have that cool and interesting thing when I demonstrated proof of the mowed grass.

At this point, my granddaughter walked by. She said “I’ll do it.” I said. “OK!” I handed her the money. She said “No I don’t want your money.” I said “But you have to take it or you can’t mow my grass.” And tomorrow my grass is getting mowed.

Now It’s Your Turn

Who can you hire to help you with stuff? What if you hired yourself? How would that look? Would it work for you? Is there anything that would really help you out that you could hire someone to do for you, or ask someone to do with you?