A Little More Thought

As I mentioned in the last blog I attended an Internet Seminar weekend which has really set me thinking about myself.  Sounds selfish? Far from it.

I realised that I now need to stretch myself in more ways than I wasn’t coping with before!  If you are a woman you will totally understand what I am saying.

I came away from the seminar feeling motivated and positve about our future.  But that is obviously not enough. The buzz word from any of these events is that you have to take ACTION.  Quite true, money won’t come pouring through the letterbox unless you work for it.

So now my list of jobs to contend with include:

Providing more space for my husband to work on bringing money into the house.

Keeping our accounts up to date for our accountant.

Keeping the family happy, fed and content.

Continuing with my own web blog (the official site now has to be put back again because of making no 1  above the priority).

Ensuring the house is kept (fairly) tidy and reduce the ironing pile down from an overwhelming 10  feet high (yes, really) to a more manageable size.  And this is without putting it into black bags and throwing it out!

Oversee repairs to the house (having the bathroom done next week, woohoo!!).  If you could see what we have been living with (broken toilet, no bath panel, cracked bath and no flooring you would go woohoo too.  Oh yes and the shower packed in last week as well).

Finding time to learn from my husband to help him sell our new products.

Creating some products for us to sell alongside my husband.

Helping out occasionally on school trips, which the children really, really like me doing.

So that’s all by Tuesday then, job done!!!!!!!!!!!  How on earth am I going to balance all these things? This is without any surprises or set backs that can occur when you have children.

I definitely need to reorganise myself.  It’s within my capability as I used to be very organised, but over the years it has slipped to almost non existent.

I have good friends that I can rely on and my mom and sister are good for offloading to, but it still has to come from me.

What I have done, to help myself is to sign up for an internet coaching course.  It will mean even more work as I need to keep diaries, logs etc but it will help focus me.  It’s with a lady called Diane Corriette who I met last weekend, but knew of her before as she is my husband’s accountability partner for a mentoring programme they are both on.

I have only signed up this week and already feel daunted by the prospect, not least because I am going to have to face up to my ‘weaknesses’.  That’s probably not the pc word to use, but it sums it up.

I will keep you updated on the progress of this as well but if you would like more details then log on to Diane’s website called Inspirational Guidance.

I’ve only got as far as downloading information at the moment and I am still thinking about the goals I want to achieve, but it’s a start.

Anyway, it’s half term and I shouldn’t be sat at the computer, I can feel the bubbling disatisfaction of the children heading my way.  That and cries of mommy, mommy and I want! 

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