How do I motivate myself to consistently write? To just sit here every evening and type along? Simply – because I love it. It makes me happy. This is my creative outlet. My portal to share how I feel and think. I have to admit I have a limited time. During the day I just have no peace to write when my son needs to be entertained and wants some Mama time. So once he is in bed, this is the time I have for myself. Then I decide what I do. Tonight I watched a movie with my husband just because I want to spend as much time possible with him until he leaves for his mission. Sniff!
And I have to admit it is easier to stay on this couch and being comfortable and keep on watching movies with him. Or just lots of different easier things than writing that I could do with my limited time. So I have been thinking that I had so much more time to do anything before I had my son. I went to the gym whenever I wanted and stayed out for as long as I wanted. And I wrote for as long as I wanted whenever I wanted. Things have changed slightly; however, I know that for me to be the best mom ever I have to take care of myself. To motivate myself to carve out some time in my day to better my body, mind and spirit. Once I do my Yoga I feel better, happier and healthy and it just makes me feel good. I just want to be a good example for my son and I really think this is my responsibly and what it all comes down to. For him to be healthy there have to be healthy role models in his life I believe. All I want is to see him grow up healthy and live a long life – and maybe even be a grandparent too one day.
For myself I hope to live my life full of travel and activity and I want to go to bed at night and know that I just got the most out of every day – that I just did everything to be a good person, positive (mostly, yes, I know Jean). I know I can change the climate in this house in a second. If I am not happy nobody is. Sad, but true. I am working on this. I know that my son even feels that I am in a bad mood and he is not even two years old. Sometimes it is just a good thing to motivate myself to do something just for myself and treat myself. And everybody knows these excuses that one comes up with: I will do this tomorrow, I will go tomorrow, It is not really important so I do it tomorrow so I just sit in front of the computer checking Facebook updates for several hours.
I have realized that all this is some sort of snowball effect. If I postpone something until tomorrow the cycle just continues for some reason. It just goes on and on. So I just do what I have to do on a daily basis. I write my post on a daily basis. I do my Yoga and Meditations on a daily basis. This makes me feel good and happy. Simple as that.
This can be applied to everything and anything in life – just get up and do it. Do not waste time. As I have mentioned many times before we only have this one life. You are the only one who can make this choice of change for yourself and always keep in mind “why wouldn’t you”? I think I deserve to be happy and be the best I can be and also deserve to treat myself to a little alone time during the day to clear my mind and head and to focus again. Also to exercise my body through mediation and yoga and my mind through writing. I remember I even took the stroller with my son when he was still tiny and walked for literally two hours a day – sometimes three- I worked out and he was sleeping and breathing in the fresh air. It was awesome. I just took the stroller and went. The journey is the key – not the destination! 🙂
