After I published the post from yesterday a few things came to my mind.
If we have an attitude of gratitude we will not have low motivation.
Usually when we are not willing to work it is because we have a poor me attitude. Think about it. When you feel unmotivated you think, "But it will just get dirty again. I've done this a million times. I'm so tired. I seldom get enough sleep. Etc." Poor me! Well if you realize how blessed you are to have a family that is healthy and a husband that works so hard, you may just pop off the couch and start serving them.
Message for today...
Be thankful. It could be worse. Enjoy what you have while you have it.
(Saying “it could be worse” is not a statement of pessimism. It is a statement of perspective. It is a statement to help you look at what you do have going right in your life)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Motivation
Every mother has times when we look across a cluttered room that needs to be cleaned and simply think, "I don't want to." So how do you get past these times? Sometimes it is so hard to do the same thing over and over. Did you ever see the movie Groundhog Day?
Just typing this has helped. I'm thankful for my family and I know that sometimes you just have to do it. JUST DO IT and stop taking precious time debating. That is what I'll do. I have a plan. I just need to follow.
What has worked for you?
Just typing this has helped. I'm thankful for my family and I know that sometimes you just have to do it. JUST DO IT and stop taking precious time debating. That is what I'll do. I have a plan. I just need to follow.
What has worked for you?
Thursday, March 22, 2007
New Schedule
I'm totally changing my schedule today. I love schedules and found an old calendar of when I was eight and I had writen out a schedule. Anyway, I have been trying to be too perfect and the fun part of me was fighting to get out. We can't forget that "men are that they might have joy". I still want a clean house - I finally have one, MOST of the time, but I want to enjoy the journey a little more.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Starting New
March 20, 2007
I really don't know if this blog is worth my time. I enjoy doing it and talking about things I have learned and even learning things from those who read, but I have to admit I'm trying to decide if it is worth my time. I'm going to be checking the hits, once I figure that out, and seeing how effective this is. But here is my day.
Today
I tried something new for the morning - I wrote out a chart with pictures and all so that the boys know exactly what we are doing and when we are doing it. They know we need to finish one task before we start the next.
The chart is as follows - with little explanation (It was very effective and I think I'll try again.)
get dressed
clean room
breakfast
table chores - when the kids get done they go into separate rooms to play while I
finish mine
Yoga on PBS - 6yo and 1 yo joined me and 3yo played computer
chores
baked bread - 6yo did a workbook at table, 1yo played at table and 3 yo helped
(they all played with a little ball I broke off of the dough) I have a great recipe that I will have to post later
call scout mom's (I help with the cub scouts in my area)
call and RSVP one of those "party" things where you are supposed to buy things - I told her I couldn't make it and that I had been invited to four for this particular company. Side note- I like to research and think about the things I buy. I'm not an impulse buyer. I will go to the party for social, but seldom, if ever, to buy something that I can usually find cheaper somewhere else.
the boys found a worm and so we went to the neighbors to feed it to their chickens,
(This is when the older two boys disobeyed and I was forced to cancel any play times until Friday. I don't like to do this, but 3yo hit - a problem he's been having and 6 yo whined my ears practically off - I just returned from a weekend away from the family and was informed that the whining stopped when I left and began when I returned - this tells me that I must be giving him some kind of pay off to keep doing it. I will plan alternate activities for my kids for when they would have been playing with the many neighborhood kids.
3 yo and 1 yo are having a nap and I tidied the house, deep cleaned part of the fridge, made dinner - meatloaf and mashed potatoes, tried to mail a check, but we are out of envelopes, planned tomorrow and wrote a chart like the one I made for today.
When 6yo gets home from kindergarten and everyone is awake I plan to go to Wal-Mart. I don't like doing this, but I will try to practice with my kids to sit in the cart before we go. (Today our practices have consisted of working on sitting still during family prayer and coming quickly. The boys have done wonderfully. I'm excited to show their dad tonight. The funny thing about all this practice behaving is that the boys really seem to like it.
I really don't know if this blog is worth my time. I enjoy doing it and talking about things I have learned and even learning things from those who read, but I have to admit I'm trying to decide if it is worth my time. I'm going to be checking the hits, once I figure that out, and seeing how effective this is. But here is my day.
Today
I tried something new for the morning - I wrote out a chart with pictures and all so that the boys know exactly what we are doing and when we are doing it. They know we need to finish one task before we start the next.
The chart is as follows - with little explanation (It was very effective and I think I'll try again.)
get dressed
clean room
breakfast
table chores - when the kids get done they go into separate rooms to play while I
finish mine
Yoga on PBS - 6yo and 1 yo joined me and 3yo played computer
chores
baked bread - 6yo did a workbook at table, 1yo played at table and 3 yo helped
(they all played with a little ball I broke off of the dough) I have a great recipe that I will have to post later
call scout mom's (I help with the cub scouts in my area)
call and RSVP one of those "party" things where you are supposed to buy things - I told her I couldn't make it and that I had been invited to four for this particular company. Side note- I like to research and think about the things I buy. I'm not an impulse buyer. I will go to the party for social, but seldom, if ever, to buy something that I can usually find cheaper somewhere else.
the boys found a worm and so we went to the neighbors to feed it to their chickens,
(This is when the older two boys disobeyed and I was forced to cancel any play times until Friday. I don't like to do this, but 3yo hit - a problem he's been having and 6 yo whined my ears practically off - I just returned from a weekend away from the family and was informed that the whining stopped when I left and began when I returned - this tells me that I must be giving him some kind of pay off to keep doing it. I will plan alternate activities for my kids for when they would have been playing with the many neighborhood kids.
3 yo and 1 yo are having a nap and I tidied the house, deep cleaned part of the fridge, made dinner - meatloaf and mashed potatoes, tried to mail a check, but we are out of envelopes, planned tomorrow and wrote a chart like the one I made for today.
When 6yo gets home from kindergarten and everyone is awake I plan to go to Wal-Mart. I don't like doing this, but I will try to practice with my kids to sit in the cart before we go. (Today our practices have consisted of working on sitting still during family prayer and coming quickly. The boys have done wonderfully. I'm excited to show their dad tonight. The funny thing about all this practice behaving is that the boys really seem to like it.
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