I'm... giving up DIY

I've spent my entire life DIYing nearly everything. Does my DIY impulse have any limits? I don't know, I once removed my own stitches to avoid having to go back to the doctor, soooo…

But this year has revealed to me that by insisting on doing literally everything myself has totally overloaded my bandwidth and is ultimately unhealthy. So, the past few months I've been working on implementing things that can make my life a little easier, take things off my plate, and handle the things that I cannot do. 

I do a lot of things. On top of the full-time gig of creating content that revolves around home renovation (which sometimes feels like 2 full-time jobs), I also take on a lot of the full-time responsibilities of being a mom and homemaker. “Liz… that sounds like… a lot? How do you do it all?”  Oh, how nice of you to ask! Well, my previous method was to just grind until I burned out, which didn't seem like a great cycle to keep churning out, so here are a few things I'm doing to take more off my plate, help me manage my household, and take care of myself. 

Will I be DIYing stuff on my house? Absolutely. But the reality is, there just isn't enough ME to DIY EVERYTHING. And I've been trying (and failing) for way too long. Something's gotta give, and it has. I don't take care of my mental or physical health because I'm too busy DIYing every nook and cranny of my life. It's too much, it's not working, and it's not healthy. So, in 2023, we're not DIYing everything anymore. We're creating healthy balance, we're outsourcing, we're able to focus more on the areas of life that we're excellent at and love doing and bringing in HELP (what a novel concept) in the areas that don't fit that bill.

We can do anything, but not everything.

We can do anything, but not everything.

Okay, let's do this