A Mind like Ivy

I was out tacking a yard project this morning.  Well, I guess I should say I wanted to tackle a yard project.  After being in this house for 3 years, I discovered cement curbing!  Under overgrown ivy.  It was like discovering buried treasure.

I started pulling the ivy out like this

All in a bundle.  It was too hard.  All my amazing upper arm strength couldn't make it budge.  I got discouraged.  My self talk was like, "this is just too hard. , I can't do it.  I don't have time for this." 

Then I thought of trying one vine at a time.  

Like this. 

And it was super easy.  And I pulled out a nice long, satisfying vine!  And I was making progress!  And it took some hard work, but I did get my curbing uncovered!  

It really reminded me of my brain.  Sometime it is a jumbled tangle of vines and I don't know where to start, and it is all too hard and I get discouraged and want to give up.  But if we take that tangle and focus on one vine at a time we can make progress on all the things that are on our mind!  

One vine at a time, one thing at a time.  We can make progress.  So when everything you have to do is jumbling up your mind, take a few minutes to do a great mind dump, and start doing one thing on your list at a time. 

If I can do it, You can do it!