Gilda

I don't know anything about the Pareto principle or the law of attraction. This doesn't seem like something that would be very workable to me, not that I really understand it all that well, and I'm a very structured person. I do maintenance chores every day so that there's never any need for a day to focus on them--buffer activities are spread out a bit. I enjoy my job--I get to go to work and talk about literature and poetry and children's books and get paid for it. Sometimes I have to pinch myself. So my focus days, those days that I focus on my work, are also fun days because my job is fun. I also like to make housework fun by popping on my iPod while taking care of the dishes or cooking, so I'm combining there.

The unstructured time I have left over is what causes me the most problems. I'm not sure why, but focusing on fun is a sure way to end up in a dark mood.

Separating fun out of buffer or work activities wouldn't work for me. Setting aside buffer activities to a certain day would leave me anxious about not having done things that need doing.

If this works well for you, wonderful. But there is no formula for a good life. If there were, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

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