I have woken up after six full, solid, uninterrupted hours of sleep and I feel fabulous! Even after four years of being a Mum, I am amazed at how much nicer I am on the day following a good nights sleep. I have just been dancing and singing around the kitchen, thoroughly amusing the kids while their toast was cooking and I can tell you that it is so much nicer to start the day with their laughter and smiles rather than whinging and bickering.
Now considering this has been my birthday week and I have been somewhat reflective in my thought process, I think I might just take today's blog as an opportunity to summarise what I have learned....
I am great at giving advice, but taking it is a whole different ball game...think back to Motivational Monday and my suggestion on carving out time to take stock of your life. Well, it's Friday now and I can honestly say I haven't found five minutes this week to make that happen! I do plan on doing it some time over the weekend though...I promise!
No amount of Ferrero Rocher chocolates or Mint Slice chocolate biscuits for breakfast will help alleviate stress and anxiety. It will however induce severe feelings of guilt and frustration with yourself for eating chocolate for breakfast!!!
I hate the ATO...that's the Australian Taxation Office for all my gorgeous overseas readers :)
If I choose to be happy, my day goes a hell of a lot better. I respond to the world around me rather than react to it and my positive energy extends to my children who seem to behave much better if I am feeling happy. All around, choosing to be happy makes everything and everyone around me happy too. Win win!
I am utterly hopeless at setting boundaries for myself. I decided last month that I was not going to socialise at all in May because I want to spend every spare moment working on my short story. So far this week however, I have socialised every evening except for Wednesday...and loved it so much!! I justify it because it has been my birthday week and after tonight (yes, celebrating again tonight with my gorgeous Mum's Group gals...sans kids of course!) I will start to reign it in...or I will try to at least :)
Most importantly, I have learned that I am surrounded by the most wonderful friends and family a girl could ask for. I truly am blessed to have such generous, caring, beautiful and genuine people in my life and this is a big shout out to you all to let you know how fabulous you are!! Love you to bits xox
Oh yes, and one other thing I have learnt is that if you want your husband to quit smoking, don't harp on at him...just use your four year old daughter to guilt him into quitting instead! Be warned though, he may temporarily turn into a bit of a cranky, short fused, pain in the arse but I am sure it will come good soon...very soon I hope!
Happy Friday gorgeous people! Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to chatting with you next week xox
PS - you will note that the title of today's blog has absolutely nothing to do with the content of it...just trying to mix things up a bit :)
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