First, I need to start this blog off by saying that I have not forgotten the Easter blog. It will be written. Probably not in 3 parts like I had wanted. Will need to do a little more research for that one so next year. But I realized that I allowed the crap that happened the week before Easter to affect me and reach deep inside me and it clouded my mind from the Easter blog to a point where I wanted to just hide all together. So, I am currently pulling myself out of that funk, still dealing with it, and trying to refocus my Easter blog! So it will come!!
Now on to the reason for this blog post. I know I am lazy. Probably the laziest person I know. Ok not really. But it is bad. I find I would rather sit and watch tv and do nothing. And what's worse, its not even good tv!! It's what ever is on tv since I am too lazy to get up to the computer and set up a show I need to catch up on. I feel like laziness is starting to take over my day and I am not really sure how to go about changing that. I know part of the reason my house is always a mess is cause I am lazy. Part of it is also that we have too much stuff and I am too overwhelmed to know where to start to organize and go through the many things we own but part of it is also laziness. And I am lazy to a point with my kids too. I play with them. I interact with them. We play video games, we watch tv but I don't go outside with them and I don;t sit and do crafts with them or color unless they ask. I don't voluntarily do it. I snuggle them and love them but not much more then that. I am in the process of changing that cause I do not want to do that at all! I am unsure though how to get out of my laziness funk. How do I motivate myself to do something?? I tried the schedule thing. I am in the process of implementing that for cleaning. Well mostly for laundry so we can stay on top of it! I have never really been one for lists or schedule making. I find motivation and discipline to be one of the hardest things for me to find! Especially in my weight loss journey *not losing weight now, promise! I am pregnant after all!* I find that even if I want to do something really badly, I usually fail to cause by the time I got the motivation to do it, it was too late or too close to do anything about. So, the purpose of this blog is ask for help. How did you do it? How do you keep laziness away and be a productive person?? Being a sahm I feel makes it worse cause I really don't have to do anything. No work. Chloe goes to school 2 days a week otherwise nothing on here. I go to MOPS and sometimes play dates. But those are outside the house and easy. I need something in the house! I am only like this at home and only when it's just my family. Well, just Jake and the kids. It doesn't matter if I am pregnant or not, I am lazy. So, got some ideas for me to get out of this laziness funk???? Thanks!!
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I get in to "funks" too. I have female family and friends that work full time, have kids, play sports and keep their homes up. I don't work, I don't have any children yet (unless I count my pets), and compared to them I feel lazy and unmotivated sometimes. There been times I have been deep in prayer, asking God to help get me on the right track and find my passion/ motivation and figure out what is going to make me feel happy and fulfilled. I know it's frustrating, but you are definitely not alone in feeling the way you do! The sure fire thing to do is pray about it, seek advice (like what you're doing), make a flexible schedule of things you would like to do each week and don't be so hard on yourself. God will give you the knowledge, tools and the motivation you need. Making a list throughout the week is helpful too. We make lists or write on our calendars about bills that are due, groceries that need to be bought, doctors appointments, etc. I use the kitchen timer myself to get cleaning done.I set the kitchen timer for 30 minutes and for that 30 minutes I vacuum, dust, straighten up the house. Then I try to "beat the clock" before the timer goes off. a little each day adds up! Sometimes we make things to be bigger hardships then if we were to chip at them little by little.
I'm lazy, too. Seriously, horribly, awfully lazy. Just as my husband. :)
Yes, I work full-time outside the home, but I still struggle with motivation and discipline (as is evidenced by the fact that I'm reading/commenting on your blog during work hours). Some days are better than others; I tend to get more productive as the week goes on, since I look at my to-do list and have a mini panic-attack at how few checkmarks are actually there. :)
And after sitting at a desk all day and trying my hardest to be creative at wording advertisements, web pages, emails, newsletters, fliers, and more, do you think I really want to go home and do a bunch more responsible stuff? HECK NO. But I go home, walk in the door, and I'm suddenly "Mommy." There's no transition, no break, no calm before the storm, it's just work, traffic, Mommy-mode. Boom, boom, boom. And if I'm lucky, I get quiet time with the hubby between kids going to bed and us going to bed.
I've always hated housework and avoided it like the plague. Any excuse to skip it was good enough for me - even if it was really a terrible, stupid excuse.
Recently I've noticed I'm choosing laundry over sitting on the couch; cleaning the kitchen over logging on to Netflix, and taking out the garbage over playing on Facebook. Why? Why this seemingly sudden change?
Two words: My husband.
Any time I'm tempted to skip a responsibility in favour of doing something lazy (or "relaxing" if you want to put a positive spin on it), I think of what my husband does - how hard he works. He does so much to keep our house in order and even though yes, I'm the one putting money in the bank and working hard away from home, I still have responsibility to him and to our children. A responsibility I agreed to accept the moment I said "yes" when he proposed.
So even when I'm exhausted, out of energy, or just plain unmotivated, I think of my husband, and how happy it would make him that I took care of something so he didn't have to a) see the mess/problem or b) clean/fix it himself.
NOTE: That third sentence should say, "Just ASK my husband." Yikes! I did not mean to imply he's lazy, too!
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