Momentum
Lately I’ve been all muddled up inside my mind and I find it hard to focus on the good things. Or sometimes anything.
My friend Beth Anne wrote a post yesterday about loving your reality and it really worked for me. There are a number of factors standing in my way at the moment, none of which are at all interesting or even remotely important and I need to recognize them for the trivial problems that they are and deal with them appropriately. And by “deal with” I mean ignore because giving them all of this attention in my head only makes them seem important.
I was reminded the other night of a song we used to sing in Sunday School when I was little, “Count Your Blessings”.
I have a boatload of blessings. Yes I have challenges, but my bills are paid, there’s food in my cupboards and everyone who lives here is healthy and safe. You know who can’t say that? Almost anyone who lives in Pakistan. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Haiti.
If I look around my life and see things missing or lacking, then it’s up to me to fix them. And there’s no one to blame but myself when at the end of the day those same things are in an unchanged state. No.One.
I think I’ve been stuck in over analysis mode again, when what I really need to do is close my eyes and jump into one of the 50 things that I want to do something about and then just freaking DO something already. It doesn’t matter which of the 50 things it is, either. Momentum is not built by deciding which rock to push downhill first, it is created when a rock starts moving. SO MOVE IT ALREADY, LADY.
Yes I’m shouting at myself. It’s my blog and I say I’m allowed therefore I AM ALLOWED. I make the rules, see? That’s the whole point of this entire post; I MAKE THE RULES. My dreams and ambitions will rise and fall with the attention that I give to them and it’s time to start doing instead of thinking.
GREAT post! I often feel the same way. Too many things on the to-do list and overwhelmed by other meaningless stuff. You are not alone.
What I find works best for me is (full disclosure dorkiness here) I decide what my top three priorities are. For instant: child, health, home. Then I list all the things I want to do under each one of those categories. It helps.
go go go!!!!
This was me about 6 months ago. Just whiny that everything was sucky but doing nothing to fix it or to at least be excited about the great things I do have going for me. That’s when we started the weekly bike rides so I could get excited about how close we live to fun stuff. It’s helped me get out of my funk about the house, and the job, and the lack of babies, and whatnot. Hope your funk ends soon and you kick your own ass good. If you feel like taking a random 2.5 hr drive to take Piper to the beach with one of your besties will help you get out of that funk, I am free to help you with that
Ah, this reminds me of the post I wrote around when we first “met”. (If they had an award for Best Commenter it’d go to you for sure, by the way.) I will just say, enough with the lists – and how’s the sewing?
You totally just motivated me to get a cookie out of the pantry. You rock. Can’t wait to follow this journey you’re on. ::peepers::
you know i’m cheering you on! sometimes when i feel overwhelmed i just try to do something. anything. i’ll set the timer for 30 minutes and clear my mind and clean my office or cut fabric or run a few things through the machine. it works wonders.