The temperature in the UK is starting to drop and noticed other countries are adjusting to the climate and the colder weather too and not felt it until now and it is time to decide on how your going to adjust and the time will change in a few weeks and can make many feel out of zinc and my son has often become ill during the sudden change of temperature.
It is coming to the end of the Autumn Reset and it means I need to get my skates on to complete my book and finally have edited and so making the most of the time and my son is eager for me to have another shelf in my bedroom and wants to paint it for me so I hope my husband can arrange as he has said and my main focus as I have decluttered and then next year I want to sort out getting a new bed and my sons room may be put on hold but be good to get my book done and it is okay if you do not finish. Perhaps its just doing what you can what you want to focus on just one thing.
I want to put some clothes away and like to rotate my clothes and declutter if something is no longer needed and got more to get rid of and so if I can clear at least one area then this will satisfy me and please share how your Autumn reset’s gone and reflecting is good to know that I have done something and it is where I am at at the moment. If I can get my room finished to where I want it too and my book edits completed then I am happy with that and can chill and work on other projects during the winter and I am putting a vlog together of what I am getting rid of. Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Carriechalloner
If you feel confident about it then sell some items some members of my family do. I prefer to recycle and donate. If it has no place then it goes and been going through my make up, skincare and books.
I didn’t realise you could sell books on Vinted too aswell as clothes. I did used to sell things on EBAY but was scammed and so this put me off. I love designing so would like to design my own clothes and notebooks. I am using on of my own notebooks and plan to sell it, not sure what platform yet, but may be at the start of January.
My Winter Wellness programme will begin at 9th December and will run until end of December then in January I am taking a month break from my blogs as such but will still do Cheat Sheets and my newsletter, but want to build a new site on my google blogger network and closing some and working on a two series of books and so be back in February once Christmas is over and end of the year, there won’t be other blogs and will still film on my Youtube channel, X and Substack.
Listening to a podcast and documentaries of Queen and Live Aid it made me realise that Queen were perfectionists and to Freddy he had a good attention to detail. A song had to make you feel excited and their Live Aid performance was out of this world and one that will always been remembered and when I spent time in a Mental Health Hospital it would be played and Bob Geldoff too putting it together and changed the music scene that not only can you write music but could create a master piece to be used and fame to make a difference. I have said “I am not perfect” but like my books and blogs to be perfect and have felt such an amateur when their have been a typo that I missed and reading my books and J.K Rowling her books had to be seen that this could be real, the same with the Hunger Games and The Lord Of The Rings.
Myself set up in Radio Studio that I’d like to perfect.
Yes mistakes do happen and can improve our focus and attention to detail as I can see that perhaps I need to do more of an outline on a book and not be in such a rush in publishing it but that my blogs and my message is put across. Its taking pride in what you do and I like my days now that I have had attention in making sure I have slept well, that my clothes are not super creased and that the home is tidy and that there are no crumbs all over the place, that the sink is shining and I am a perfectionist and I think now in observing people, we all are. We all want to have a home to give you comfort so spending time on the look of a home, like furniture, the perfect bed that we like to help have a good nights sleep.
It means you care. Yes you can get things wrong that is part of life but when you keep building and growing being a singer, dancer, writer or a Housewife you it perfect for you and for others you live with. Then there are things that you think are going to be bad, turn out to be a masterpiece. Boy George didn’t like his song “Do you really want to hurt me” and didn’t want it on their album and yet it changed his life and Culture Club, but again it is perfectionism. It can work against you like the example of the Boy George and Culture Club sometimes it can cause confliction.
You only know when something is good when you get feedback both good and bad. I have had criticism, but people will. It doesn’t mean you have to stop but may need to make changes and feedback is a must.
A chef will always want feedback. They need to know if people like their dishes to learn how to make a meal better and it depends who it is for. A child may not go for a steak that is within the specials. I do not like Liver because of school dinners but then I didn’t eat Tuna but had Tuna Steak, which made me realise it could be tasty. So it was perfection for me. It was cooked well, it was flavour and that is where it pays off and so when you do something check it, taste it and makes us succeed by being consistent and attention to detail, which is the key and what you like. What puts you off? What could you make that you can master that will help build a website and what outcome using the Worksheet I created in first blog: https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com/2026/04/29/introduction-to-my-yearly-programme-summer-project-2026/
I like to see things develop and watched how they put together Bohemian Rhapsody. It was really clever and every bit of was important in the making of it. Seeing Strictly Come Dancing live. Being there was such an thrill, because how much work goes into to making it. It was different the clips that they had to do and film and so much goes into it and it is perfectionism because if the presenters can’t talk, the cameras not working it could all have been a disaster so again it is attention to detail and consistency.
So what do you want to focus on?
Focus on what result you want. Who could help you perfect a skill or if its your weekly routine you have been working on?
Dig deep and be honest. It was journaling that helped me put this is blog together and by journaling each day has really been a great. It has helped me to slow down and keep going. Writing a book is a hard process, because how I see it the readers will see it differently and its making it understandable, engaging and that they will read more books I write. All to down with perfectionism and tip you toe in the water to start and learn the craft that you want to perfect.
I do a radio show for the local hospital and its not just pressing buttons, but choosing songs that the patients or family of patients may be listening to and like. Making sure the last song fits in with the news and not cut half the song and playing the Promos and not playing the same songs, it is a whole process and you have to enjoy it and music that may be personal to people. I have made mistakes, but the more I do it the more I will perfect it and try different themes and what a song makes me feel when I hear it.
So having good attention to detail and consistency means you are a perfectionists and now as I become aware of the world as I grow in age, it is okay because its about using to build your skills and abilities and let work for you not against you.
