Personal Responsibility and Time

I'm copying this from a blog I read (The Happiness Project) I think it's a wonderful thought.

Is there anything that you see people around you doing or saying that adds a lot to their happiness, or detracts a lot from their happiness?
I wish people wouldn’t say “I don’t have time to do X, Y or Z.” Instead, we should say “I won’t do X, Y or Z because it’s not a priority.” Often, that is a perfectly adequate explanation. I could tell you I’m not going to sew Halloween costumes for my kids because I don’t have time, but that’s not true. If you offered to pay me enough, I’d probably do it! Since that’s not going to happen, I can acknowledge that I just don’t think it’s as good a use of my time as working, playing with my kids, sleeping, or reading magazines (see above). But that’s a little harder to say about other things – “I’m not going to read to you tonight, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” Blaming a lack of time takes power out of our hands. Owning up to our choices ultimately makes us happier – because we can see that if we don’t like our choices, we have the power to change them.

This is something I'm going to try to remember.

My List

So, I just finished reading "The Next Thing on My List" by Jill Smolinski. In it, the main character works to finish another person's bucket list. As I began reading it, I thought it'd be interesting to work on my own... apparently so did the author because it's one of the suggested activities at the end of the book.
More on my lists later.....