Thanks to my girl Jen for calling me out on my lack of blogging over the last month....something I've learned about myself recently is that I have a tendency to be highly motivated and excited about something and then lose interest relatively quickly if it doesn't turn out to be as perfect as I'd hoped. I really don't know if I've always been this way or not - I always thought of myself as someone who follows through on all of my commitments - but since it has been brought to my attention I've noticed it a lot.
So, after making a couple of blog posts I think that I quit doing it for a few reasons: (1) It became one more thing I need to worry about doing, (2) I didn't feel like I knew what - or how much - I "should" write, (3) I felt like it was a lot of whining on my part and not much development, and (4) a general feeling that everything sounded so silly. I didn't consciously quit, but if I'm honestly reflecting on it then I think those things had something to do with it. It certainly wasn't that I couldn't make a little time to do it. In any case, I'm giving it another shot, thanks once again to my inspirational buddy Jen.
Lately I've been staying sane by trying to attack the things I need/want to do little by little rather than letting myself get overwhelmed by everything as I tend to do. My awesome husband made a great suggestion that I think has the potential to make my life a lot less stressful. He suggested that rather than trying to do everything, and get it all to a completed state, that I should come up with a list of the main few things I want to work on (my Europe journal/blog, various picture/scrapbooking projects, organizing my notes on all of the things I want/need to do, working on my personal development, reading the abundance of nutrition/fitness information I've been collecting, etc) and then commit to working on one of them each evening - even if I can only muster the energy to do it for 30 minutes, at least then I'll feel that I accomplished something.
I'm getting there. I've been on a really crazy schedule at work lately and we were scrambling to finish a couple of projects around the house before our big cookout in mid-September, so I haven't settled into a great routine yet...but I'm working on it and I have a positive outlook.
Enough for now....back to my lazy rainy day around the house ;).
