Boredom and Motivation

In four days time it will have been 6 months since I started my maternity leave. Six very long months. I'm now reaching a point where I am extremely bored. I adore my children, but I am just not a stay at home mum. And with my studies now finished for the year, I haven't had a lot to do.

This has resulted in me taking up 2 very bad activities:

Eating a LOT of junk food and shopping.

Now I'm sure why you can understand that these activities aren't the greatest things for me to be doing. To start with my waist line and energy levels aren't entirely happy with my newfound love for cakes and chocolate (who am I kidding? I've always loved these things!) I've also been put on a special diet by my Doctor due to stomach problems. I haven't stuck to this diet at all since that happened!

Shopping is killing my bank account, and my house. All the work I have done so far since starting on this venture has almost been a total waste thanks to my unnecessary shopping. Clearly my Consumer Addiction has started to show up again.

I haven't really spent much time cleaning out lately, mainly due to laziness - which I am not proud of. However with my partner finishing up work for the christmas holidays next Friday I'm looking forward to getting stuck into things with his help and motivation. We plan to hire a skip bin over the new year and throw out anything broken or too damaged, stained or old for donating to the salvos.

This journey has been a lot harder than I expected, and although I welcome the challenge, I am lacking a little in the motivation, particularly since feeling as though I am in a rut. I'm thankful and eagerly awaiting my return to work in the new year!

Linking up with Essentially Jess for IBOT

Road Blocks

I'm feeling stuck in a rut. I'm feeling tired of being Mummy. I'm feeling tired of doing the same things over and over, day in, day out. I'm tired of our debts hanging over our heads like a big reminder of our less-than-smart decisions.

I just want to hit the ground running and just feel like there's all these road blocks (or are they excuses?) that are stopping me. They seem to be stopping me in all aspects of my life currently.

My most common road blocks are:

1. The Kids
2. Sickness
3. Focus
4. Space
5. Energy

Really, these road blocks are totally avoidable, or easily recovered from.

The kids? I can get stuff done whilst the oldest is at daycare, and the baby's napping. 

I've been sick a couple of times this month. This makes it hard to get lots of things done, but I can still do bits and pieces here or there. Clean out a drawer, list a couple of items on eBay, read one chapter for school, or even stick one load of washing on.

Focus is a hard one. I really struggle to focus and I am so easily distracted. I need to make sure I am well fed (with healthy food, and take regular breaks. If I'm really struggling then I could have a coffee for the extra brain power.

Space is limited. But this is why I have decided to take on this new lifestyle. I have now decided to stop trying to sell everything that is leaving our house. My original thought was that I could use this money to help pay off credit cards. Now I'm seeing just how time consuming this is, and it's also extremely frustrating. It means that everything is hanging around the house. I need to really do 1-2 trips to the salvos each week, to clear out the stuff and make a good amount of space.

Energy really is the same kind of road block as focus, with the same solutions.

I have a picture in my mind of what I really want our lives to look like. It may differ from my partner in some ways, but we both agree on a lot of things. We both like a clean house, but we hate cleaning. We both want more money to have awesome experiences and adventures with. We both want our kids to grow up with a good attitude towards money, gratitude and charity. 

Really I need to decide if the life we want is worth overcoming the road blocks.