Please Note: This is a Thought From My Journal™️, which is an actual entry from my journal. It is lifted as-is from my journal without any edits, except when a sensitive detail needs to be removed or changed. This means there will be grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes. (Because who worries about that in their journal?)

I tend to not spell out the words because and with. The shorthand I use is b/c = because and w/ = with. I might swear (especially when impassioned) and I tend to put words in all caps for emphasis. Oh and I can write in run-on sentences. (Because again, no one is worrying about this in their journal.)

Also, I don't always write in full sentences in my journal. I sometimes think better in poetry format, so you might also see a free-verse style poem as my thought.

Entries are in no particular order and will vary wildly in length. The date of the published thought does not correlate with the date of the journal entry. (There, of course, might be exceptions to this rule). There are quite a few older entries, from the past few months to the past 2 years and sometimes all the way up to 5 years ago.

The thought will be written as a quote for formatting, but again it is from my actual journal. Not all of the entries are happy in case you were starting to think I was perfect. (Spoiler Alert: I'm not. I struggle and some of these entries show my Struggles and various emotions).

This post was written a few months before I started CRAZY DECISIONS.

I am exhausted. Exhausted with trying to make my business fit the mold of several people's business. Exhausted from hearing all of the different opinions about the "right" and "wrong" ways to create/build/run an online business and then me trying to cram all of these ideas (some at odds with each other) into one business. It's not working.

It hasn't been working for a while and especially lately. The exhaustion isn't purely physical. It's mental and emotional. My business has become a tangle of complicated systems. Devoid of almost my entire personality. A kind of Anti-Ree.

I'm tired of complicated. I yearn for ease. Business is hard enough without making it purposely hard.

Let it be easy. What if this were easy? How can I make this easy? What does easy look like for [fill-in-the-blank]?

And I yearn for fun. Seriously. When was the last time I had fun in my business? Did something fun in my business?

Simple, easy, and fun are no longer a "that would be nice but..." No buts!

They are a necessity. Complicated, hard and boring are out. So is overthinking and second guessing.

Simple, easy and fun are in.