25 & Trying

Being a Hot Mess.

So, normally I find timely and silly Google Images to accompany my posts. Today, the choices were endless for “Hot Mess.” I encourage you to search for them and check them out. Basically, they involve celebrities that leave their homes looking like hot messes. Including many of Lindsay Lohan. Like a lot.

Either way, I decided – Better to leave well enough alone. Go image-less for once. It’s tough.

Today being Monday, I am in self-analysis mode. Mondays are like my version of therapy. I sit down and think about the things that I can do differently, and figure out the ways in which I’m not doing as well as I like. In short, I’m really hard on myself. For no other reason than it’s Monday.

I have watched people at my job, and in other parts of my life, that lead their lives in 100% chaos. They are, in short, hot messes every single day. They don’t make lists, or schedules, or remember important things. They don’t take care of their health, they work too much and get little done, and being around them fills me with nerves. They actually transport anxiety wherever they go. And yet – they continuously take on more and more responsibility.

Being an impending train wreck in the working world is not hard. There are a million things that we could be doing at any given time that many of us can become like this quite quickly. There is always another email waiting (even if it’s crap), some project to do, some website to check.

People are always available to other people, and it’s no wonder – being available isn’t hard. Sorting through the mess and not being hard on yourself is where the challenge lies.

How do we become successful entrepreneurs without becoming a little bit of a Hot Mess?? Is it even doable? Maybe. On Mondays (read: hot mess day), I really feel lost with direction. Did I enjoy AND OR get enough weekend fun in? (See my post on what makes a great weekend.) What will the week ahead bring, and will it be enough for me to feel successful?

Basically, I conjure up a bunch of questions for myself WITHOUT answers. They are floating around, waiting for me to figure them out. I think the best thing we can do to prevent Hot Mess situations (and becoming one of those workers you look at and say “I SO hope that isn’t me someday) is to be okay with the questions.

So today, I am okay with the questions. And hoping for Hot Mess Monday to lead me right into the answers.

AND JUST FOR FUN — Some Hot Mess Links that are pretty hilarious here and definitely here.