You Blossom

Carrying on from the whole breaking the routine thing – progress hasn’t been good!

I feel completely overwhelmed sometimes with just deciding what to do next. So rare is it that I have a slot of more than 5 or 10 minutes in which to do anything at home that my attention always seems to default to the same old friends – the dishwasher pleading to be unloaded, the washing just daring me to leave it another day, the to-do list sniggering at my inability to actually cross anything off.

But progress is only made when we take small steps towards the big goals and ignore the everyday tasks that can be done later/by someone else/not at all.

So my plan is to get up half an hour earlier, spend that time on my own, planning my day, making sure that at least one thing gets done that day that moves me forward to my bigger goals. I will report back next week….

But on a positive note – I have returned to the blog after just 8 days – yey!

Oh my God, I’ve just rememberd that Wimbledon is on – must dash – if only for 5 minutes….

And this Monday morning, I’m back writing my blog after more than a year of total silence.

I’m not expecting too much from myself this morning – but I’m here, at the computer, tapping away before going to pick up my 4 year old, Daisy, from nursery.

The point of my blog is to inspire mums to smile more, moan less and to take action to make their lives a little bit happier (if they’d like to, of course). And at the same time, to inspire myself.

So – today’s nugget of inspiration is this. Try breaking the routine and do something different. Today. I stopped myself from doing a plethora of small jobs in my one hour after going to the supermarket after school drop-off and picking up Daisy. I sat at my computer and resurrected my blog. The little things will get done later.

Do something different today and see how it feels! I think it feels pretty good.