We did the world a favor this week:

Recycling

My photo of hubs at the recycling establishment

Today in my reading of “The Daily Stoic” (by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman), I read about how to turn a “have to” into a “get to”.

And this was perfect timing!

Because hubs and I have been saving items for at least a year that are considered “electronic waste”.

We had also been saving many bottles, cans and plastic bottles to recycle, as we usually do.

We always save bottles and cans until the number of bags we have saved will fill up the entire storage compartment of my car! I fold down the back seat of the car to complete the recycling project.

Yesterday was the CANS, BOTTLES, and PLASTICS day! Today was the Electronics day!

So, this was definitely THE week!

The electronic items are things we would never throw out into the regular trash can…

They are things like small used AA and C size batteries, old lightbulbs, a broken electric paper shredder, parts of old computers, long fluorescent lightbulbs, old solar lights, a computer printer, an old broken power washer, computer boards, and such.

We decided to “get it all done” this week!

After we got back from this excursion of ours, I decided to take a break and read from “The Daily Stoic” book by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. On page 200 it spoke about changing our “HAVE TO” moments into our “GET TO” moments.

How timely was that?!?

It basically spoke about changing our attitudes. To stop putting off the pesky tasks of life…

Like recycling.

Photo by rivage on Unsplash

In other words, to do this:

Turn the things that we “Have to Do” into the things we finally “GET to do”.

So, it all works out best in the end —

And how did we turn our “have to” into our “get to”?

We HAD TO make the EFFORT to recycle the cans, bottles, and plastics and our electronic waste.

It takes teamwork from both of us, but it’s worth it!

I actually GOT TO help by loading my car up twice this week and driving to both locations!

On two separate days this week we had two different adventures!

And I DROVE to both!

Our “Have to” tasks turned into a positive experience.

And we did the world a favor.

My photo of an African Daisy from our yard

Do you have a recycling story?

Thanks for your time…as I know time is precious.

Lu💜

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