Motivation

I used to work away from home, and in many ways it was easier to limit my food intake during the day. Busyness at work, tight schedules, hours flying by—all are reasons that I found it easier to eat hardly anything.

Now that I have two wonderful little additions to my life that I am staying home to enjoy and to raise, the days don’t exactly blink by anymore. Perhaps I could get by on a salad for lunch in my working-away-from-home days, but now I have ample opportunity to pass by the pantry on the hour, especially if I’m needing an energy lift.

Staying home all day can be dull, mundane, and de-energizing. For the record, I would have made a terrible student by correspondence simply because the outside world energizes me. The inside world at times is uninspiring!

Wait! Before I get carried away here, I remember the difficulties I had with my job and that life was not always easy. I remember being so stressed out that I would come home and binge on occasion. Every job, inside or outside, has it’s challenges. What I have to do, regardless of my current status in life, is to find a way to overcome the obstacles.

Part of the solution is attitude—sometimes I just need to count my blessings! I do have some rather amazing blessing in my life, blessing that I didn’t have in my working-away-from-home days!

Another part of the solution is practical—I need to find ways to motivate myself. What a great topic to discuss! Do you have any ideas?