I’m having a hard time keeping my enthusiasm up this week. I feel like I’ve been going hard since last weekend and I’m just tired. It’s mental and physical this time, not just mental and emotional (like usual). I’ve been trying to revamp my diet, be more active, and cut back the caffeine (again) and my poor body is just like…WHAAAAAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME??!!
I’ve been trotting endlessly up and down the stairs with all this cleaning and organizing and my new commitment to better supervision and more family time upstairs and my legs are killing me. In a good way, so I’ve been told.
Ok, and in an effort for all honesty and soul-bearing disclosure, “trotting” sounds so light and active and lalala I’m Cinderella dancing around while I mop the floor. What I’ve been doing is huffing and puffing and dragging myself up by the handrail while hauling baskets and boxes and bags of junk (and furniture!) up and down with me.
Sometimes it feels like we just gallop along at 100 miles an hour until we drop dead with exhaustion.
Boy, this blog is super encouraging today, huh? {grin}
But here’s a few things I’m reminding myself to do today. Things that help me reset my mind and heart to the task before me.
- Stop and give myself 5 concentrated minutes to PRAY for my family. 5 minutes doesn’t seem like much, but I’ve found that it only takes those short intentional moments to get my mind refocused from the worldly to eternal, and from myself to others. And I tend to continue long past 5 minutes and begin multi-tasking again, but without that intentional stop, I won’t even get started.
- Give myself 5 minutes outside to just stand (or sit) and watch the animals. Not rush around and fill water buckets or throw feed or examine them for any minute indications of sickness. Just stand and watch them. Listen to them shuffle through the field. Listen to them huff and grunt and mumble to each other. Watch their ears flick and their eyes rove and their tails switch back and forth. Just watch.
- Give myself 15 minutes (which we all know will turn into 40 minutes!) on Pinterest (won’t you come follow me?!) and BHG to glean some more inspiration for our home projects.
And one of my favorite things?
- Give myself 15 minutes to sit and organize or edit pictures. Nothing makes my heart sing like looking through pictures of our wonderful life and beautiful blessings. Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes I just feel so overwhelmed by how blessed we are. (Pray for our poor camera! I think it might be on it’s last leg and the “new camera” savings jar is not overflowing.)
I’ll be doing all of these today.
How do you reset when you get physically and emotionally out of whack?
