How is that I cannot do everything??? Ok..so I wrote about my latest mission to work out like 3+ hours a week and I'm doing it (last week hit the 5 hour make--whoo hoo!)...however, I'm not able to keep up with everything else? How is it???
I have not picked up any needles of any sort for a least 2 months! I hate when I do this because I know I will get the bug to pick them up again and I will wonder why I was not working on projects all along? It just seems like if I'm focused on one thing I cannot focus on other things? What does this mean??? I'm ADD?? If I do too much in one day I feel like the next day I need to take it easy. I get overwhelemed with filling up every second of my day-- it just zaps me. On the other hand I want to be doing a million things at once. I know--it does not make sense. It just feels like all my "creative" juices are focusing on my workouts right now. I know I don't want to burn out on exercising...I'm trying to find a balance with it but it's gonna take me a bit to do that until I build it as a habit.
I have to admit I'm really loving my workouts. I have always enjoyed working out when it was just me, but the kids came along it proved to be a bigger challenge for me than I had expected and for the longest time I was just not up for the challenge. I read one of the keys to making your workouts easier is to have a plan of action and have everything organized and ready to go. I have finally got myself organized with my workout clothes, I have my gym bag by the door, it's packed and ready to go. I read this is phase one of the workout, phase two is the workout and phase three is getting all ready for the next day. I have also been told many times, that it takes 30 days to build a habit. I'm on day 21. I feel like I'm building a habit. I have been dreaming about running...how funny is that? I'm reminded of when I was trying to learn other languages, you knew you were getting somewhere if you started dreaming in the language. Maybe that's what I'm doing with exercising---learning to master it?
In any event, I'm trying to keep up with it all...but sometimes I just wonder how other mom's do it all? And what does "doing it all" mean? I'm a list person. I make a list, cross off what I've accomplished. Before Kids (BK) I would pretty much finish my lists on any given day. However, since kids my list is a constant "to do" that seems to never be completed it just seems to get longer and longer. I know, I know...just chip away at the most important stuff and feel good about what I have accomplished...I get it...it's just that I want to get to the bottom of the list and feel done...not just "ok that was good enough." Dunno if I'm even making sense? I know I'm not perfect and I'm not trying to reach for perfection---hee hee, if that were the case I would not be writing this blog right now---I would be cleaning a bathroom and checking it off my list.
How do you do it all?
3 comments:
You're a kick Christy, and I enjoy your gutsy humor, and human-beingness.
Alexander got so bored when he had finished conquering all the known world. there was nothing left on his to-do list.
So, we'll never get to the bottom of it, if life has its way.
xoxoxoMary
:) Thanks Mary...that's for sure...I know one thing...I will never get to the bottom of my to do list...:)
I JUST hired someone to come clean for me once a week. To be honest, I can't fit it all in. My business, school, my part time job, exercise, and mommy-hood- add cleaning to that and there are just not enough hours to the day. This is not even touching my hobbies or the piles of books I want to read.
Sometimes we need a little bit of help, and I don't think there's anything wrong with admitting that.
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