You know that feeling where there's a whole lot of things you need to /want to do, but there's not a lot of time to do them in and you're begin to feel just a little bit overwhelmed. Well that's me right now and I'm not really enjoying it.
If I'm honest I could probably get a lot more done if I organised myself a bit better and didn't do a lot of the sitting around not really doing anything that has become my normal mode. However, getting up the motivation to put my long-term gains over the easier, more appealing short-term gains has been particularly difficult recently. It's time to make some changes, or at least some updates, to help me actually get where I'm wanting to go.
The first thing I need to do is have a look at my goals again to remind myself why I'm doing all this and what it is I actually want. It could be that I actually decide that some of them are no longer right for me, in which case I can put them to one side, but for the others I just need a reminder as to why I want to do these things. It might be a good idea to put up some pictures and photos around the flat as a visual reminder to help keep me motivated as well.
One thing I'm already doing now is that I've decided to reduce the hours I do at work, only by one day at the moment but we'll see how it goes. This may seem a little bit counter intuitive as one of our goals is to save up money and to do things like learn how to surf and sail. However, I do also want to spend more time with family at the moment and this help with that. It'll also give me more time to research and pursue other forms of income that could actually earn us more and give us more financial stability and flexibility in the long run. This extra time is also going to make me less stressed and less stress means less comfort eating, which means a little less spending money.
Which brings me onto spending a little more time in making sure I'm eating properly. Firstly because that would be a good way of ensuring we're saving money as one of our biggest spends is on snack foods and take-aways /eating out. But it would also mean that I'd have more energy to do all the things I want to do as the relatively high sugar diet I have right now is not exactly one that fills you with lasting energy. If I'm honest I'm not really a fan of preparing food, I've basically lost all the enthusiasm I use to have for it, but the long term gain will be worth it.
The next thing that is important is that I need to properly organise my free time. At the moment I have a list of tasks I need to do and the days I would like to do them on, but nothing more than that. What usually happens is that when I come home from work I just space out for about 30 minutes if not more, than shower, eat, and then try and fit everything in to the time that is left usually leading to me going to bed late. Not getting enough sleep is definitely a had thing and the doing nothing at the start of the evening also sets the mood I'm in for the rest of that time. If I had a set schedule and got on with things as soon as I got home I would actually get a lot more done. The same is also true for days on the weekend when Ed is at work. This time gives me an opportunity to get more things done, especially if I schedule it out properly. So far all I've actually done is not a lot and then again try to fit everything into a very small amount of time. The scheduling would also mean I should be able to fit in things like reading and writing in my diary. Things that I always want to do but never get round to doing.
And all this organising and scheduling will mean one very important thing. That I will be able to have time to properly relax. Even though right now I'm doing a lot of nothing, there's always the knowledge that I should actually be doing something so it's not actually as relaxing as it should be and there's always just a little bit of guilt involved. By scheduling and actually doing all the things before hand I can then relax properly, go for walks, read a book, do my crafting, and actually enjoy doing these things properly.
So that's the plan. Already I can feel a part of me that just can't be bothered and wants to put it off stirring. The temptation is very strong, but it's not going to get me anywhere. I need to make a choice between the immediate me or the future me enjoying the life I'm planning for. I know which one I'd actually prefer, I just need to put in the effect to get there.
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