Alright so… a week later what do I have?
I don’t have a topic. I need a topic. How do I plan a topic. Lol. Make a list? Get a blog planner? I found one, now to use it. Uh oh. How do I do that? Not a clue. I have been busy planning and printing for the school year. But I have been doing well sticking to my new habits so for now just shout out post to the tools I use to help me change my life for the better.
Bit shout out to pinterest, how can you not like it. I found my blog planner, my garden planner, my homeschool planner, my de-clutter guide, what didn’t I find on there? Ha a husband. Pinterest has added a lot to my life between that at YouTube. I am on fire getting my life back. Functioning with children is hard. You really do have to learn how to live optimally again. Without personal reflection you might not realize you are NOT operating at your fullest potential. You are just a hamster on a wheel going through the motions happy no one has fallend to their deaths. Like for real. I live on the top floor of an apartment and my oldest son managed to open the screen. Why? To see fireworks. What was I doing wrong that my oldest son doesn’t realize that opening the screen to see fireworks is not a good idea? It is my job to teach him and sadly I had failed. My house was a mess. We where doing chores all over each other. I am gaining weight due to stress and eating the boys left overs simply not to waste food. ? Back the truck up. We have plenty of food. I don’t need to do that. But stress can cloud your vision. Maybe I was eating to stop from yelling. Either way not healthy.
Next shout out award goes to FABULOUS app and 8fit, I have Google fit but never used it. I don’t like being tracked. Lol but the free version of fabulous and 8fit work marvelous. I have worked out happily with my children 15 days in a row now. Fabulous motivates me to do it and 8fit has adaptable routines to music we love. And they have a wide selection of stations in the app to fit anyone.
For my 33rd birthday I treated myself to a brand new blackberry PRIV. I am in heaven with this phone I raved about the Motorola juke b a while ago because of the keyboard. I gushed over everything. This phone is the best of everything on the market. But no play, how did I find it? I am a tech nerd and I know how to Google for what I want. Edge scrolling secure blackberry framework with and android os. I am in heaven yall. This phone has a productivity suite I had no idea I needed, until I awoke from my postpartum motherhood haze and saw the disaster that was my home. No wonder I was neglecting my blogging desire to document my life for posterity for my children. I was exhausted running in in circles going no where. Haha tunnel vision of my cage. Thank goodness I broke out. With my productivity suite, I was so organized I was able to download more audible books hah which lead me to the book “Listful Thinking” which pushed me over the edge in productivity. I have always been a list maker, but YOU CAN MAKE LISTS WRONG! I was making list wrong. I got deep interesting my lists and tada. I remembered to go to the designer blog website signup for the newsletter and get the free planner I saw on pinterest. I downloaded it. I have not used it. But I have my list of topics just not fleshed out.
I am a homeschooler and I am alone. I have delved into the Charlotte Mason way of mother culture. Listening to blogs and I found a braindump planner sheet. The fabulous app reminds me to do my morning pages. But with the brain dump pages I don’t have a fog and I remember more because all the crap is in a list where I can find it. Instead of my pile of notebooks no table of contents. Almost as full as a sea of some well planned thoughts. But lost in the currents of time. The pages folded in on each other’s good ideas lost never to be seen again. As an entrepreneur that is potential income thrown away. Omg the things I have learned in the podcasts from homeschooling mothers. When I start using my blog planner I will make better notes to share.
I am happy that it has been a week and I remembered to stick to my promise to blog weekly. My tools are being put to use and the climb up to greatness will be long but rewarding.