Good morning all! We revert back to a normal Monday Motivation post today, thanks for bearing with me last week. Also thank you for all those that supported and commented on ‘Let me have sugar‘! It was great to know so many people felt the same as me and it was also awesome to have my tribe behind me standing up to the business owner’s response on my Instagram post. Great to have you all on my side :-).
I’ve had a pretty great week. The new job is shaping up to be a good one, which is a huge relief. It is a completely new field for me and I have a huge amount to learn. I have the utmost respect for anyone who works Monday to Friday 9 – 5.30 in an office! It’s not something I have ever done before and, being a fairly creative person that likes constant interaction, it’s not something that suits me at all! I am only doing it for two days a week and as much as I enjoy the role there is no way I could ever cope with more than that! After my second day I came home, had a glass of wine and promptly fell asleep for an hour. I’m definitely an office lightweight!
Yesterday was Archie’s 13th birthday. I find it hard to believe that I’m now the mother of a teenager (I’m still only 25 in my head, far too young to have a 13 year old!). To be honest I think we’ve had a couple of years of the teenage strops and attitude so along with his younger sister who is 6 going on 16, we have our hands full. We had a great day though and the sun has been shining all weekend which always makes the days seem that much more special.
Today’s quote is one that is quite special to me. Not only is it from my favourite film of all time, Ferris Beullers Day Off, it is also a quote that motivates me every single day. This is my mantra, the thing that reminds me to focus on the good things in life and not dwell on the bad, the reminder to remember the things that are actually important and not the stuff that gets in the way.
It’s so easy to get bogged down in the day to day drudgery of life and stress about the little things that really don’t matter. Housework, washing, ironing, cooking…all things that need to happen are insignificant. I have often heard myself telling the kids I haven’t got time to play/take them to the park/go swimming because I have too much to do and I actually believed that these things were important. So this year I have made a concerted effort to do more fun stuff and less of the mundane. To just get out and enjoy life a bit more! The jobs still get done, it’s just a matter of being more efficient with my time and fitting things in where I can. Reducing my working week to two days will definitely help with this. I’m only gaining half a day but it feels like a whole extra day. When I previously worked 4 hours on a Thursday morning, by the time I got home, had lunch and walked the dogs it was pretty much time to do the school run so I really didn’t feel any better off than a day where I worked 8 hours. Now I get a full Thursday off which means jobs can get done when everyone is at work and school and I can spend my family time actually being with the family!
I certainly don’t think I always live every day to the fullest and sometimes weeks can go by and I feel like all I’ve done is cook, clean and pick up after everyone. But having this quote at the back of my mind reminds me to stop and look around. Archie turning 13 has also been a reminder that life really does move very fast. It really does only feel like yesterday that I was bringing him home from the hospital with his little mop of red hair. I know I will just blink and he’ll be off to university and moving out of home and I don’t want to regret not making the most of every second of his childhood.
This week we move into the sixth month of the year…we are already half way through! We’ll be talking new school years, Autumn and Christmas before we know it. So just stop. Slow down. Look around and smell the flowers, watch the sunset, jump in the puddles. Don’t regret what you didn’t do because you were too busy doing stuff that really didn’t matter.
Until next time…
Nicx
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