Motivational Monday: Keeping Your Head Up
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Being a work at home mom can often feel like swimming in the ocean, with waves crashing over you and it´s pretty tempting to just crawl back up on the beach where it´s safe. But staying in one place in your life is boring and won´t get you where you want to go.
- When you are feeling overwhelmed with life, family and work, all piling onto you at once, it can be useful to remember that these times are the ones that teach you things. Here are a few ideas to keep your head above water:
- Find other people in the same position. You aren´t the only one going through this, so network with other moms who can support you and give you a shoulder to cry on. If you can´t get out to a mom´s group or something similar, there are online networking sites that can serve the purpose. Try Work It, Mom or Cafe Mom, where you´ll be able to share your challenges and get feedback.
- Journal it. Whether you write in a notebook or blog about your life for the whole world to see, writing down what you are going through, your frustrations and successes, will help relax you. You can look back and see that you´ve been worse before and remind yourself of how you always made it through before.
- Get help. Sometimes it just isn´t possible to do it all on your own. Rather than fret about how you´re being a bad mom or a lousy wife, order takeout for dinner, hire a babysitter for a couple of days,or outsource some work and get everything done. These spells rarely last for long, so it´s worth getting some help for the duration.
The best way to prevent the pile up from happening in the first place is good planning. Make sure you have backup plans ready to go should something happen unexpectedly. Keeping a visible schedule is also a good way to go, a wall calendar so you can see it easily at a glance.
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