Making life fun again!

Thanks to all the support on the Paul McKenna web site, I have been able to start chipping a way more pieces of the shell I have been hiding under.

I have started looking at my life the way I look at the world. I am getting better at treating myself, like how I treat others. It's a hard thing to do when your not used to respecting and complimenting yourself. How is your life supposed to change if you can't trust ans love yourself the way you love others?
So I put me in a clear box of frozen time. Visualising every thought that ventures in around my brain. I can see the clutter of fog that has nestled it's self so snug and cozy all over. What's causing it? and how the heck do I get rid f it?
Slowly I have started making changes in my life. Setting small goals for each week, and not getting depressed if it takes longer than a week. Day by day is worth a life time.
I've manged to clean out my basement of just about all the junk that's been sitting down there for about 2 years ago since we built our house. I never realized how much it really did bother me that that space being cluttered was cluttering a part of me.
I just went down and did it! At first I cleaned up little piles at a time and then one day I had this burst of energy and I went down and cleaned until I was done. It took me non stop 5 hours but I did it and I felt so excited it was done! The only thing left was to get rid of baby things and like 5 big bags of trash and 4 big bags of big/prego clothes.
Freeing up so much space in my basement gave new opportunity to turning my life around yet again. I was able to set up a play area for the kids and a small area for my work out stuff. So no more excuses that I can't bring the kids downstairs with me and I never have time to work out because of no space.
Yet another idea, my washer and dryer are down there, so I set up a table to fold the laundry on and to get more exercise out of my day, why not take one pile up at a time to put the clothes away. Not only was I getting exercise I am tackling another thing that bothered me most. I was always searching threw clean laundry basket for clothes that just never got put away. Now even if I don't get to putting them away right away they are folded on my table in the basement and another opportunity to use the stairs!
It's great finding new things that get you motivated and your mind starts to lift some of the fog. So take a look from out side the box approach to my life is continuing to help me achieve many things.
Setting new rules in my house and sticking to them is the best for me and my family. Limited tv time, I used to think that people were crazy, I couldn't survive without the tv being on for the kids. Not anymore I understand now why they say that. Just as anything else we are letting something other than "us" control our minds.
Which brings me to the scale. This week I set a new goal, a life long goal. Put away the scale and start trusting your self. No more weighing into the scale gods a couple days a week or every other week. But to help with getting my mind off of that I put my pedometer on for the first time yesterday to see just how many steps I do in a day.
Shannon gave me some great advise on how to set my goal. She said she marked down the total # of steps taken each day, then at the end of the week (7 days)add them all together and divide them by 7 and that will give you the average steps you take daily. The goal would be to add 500 steps a week until your body feels comfortable to working up to 10,000 steps a day.
I will be doing that and I decided to keep my scale where it is and I figured if I have a paper with the number of steps taken daily as motivation and look in the mirror for my morning pep talk and get my day started on a good note and weigh myself once a month.
Yesterday was a fun filled day! I reached over 10,000 steps, I made it to 10,734 steps! It wasn't hard and I had a blast playing with the kids. It was so enjoyable, not that feeling of pealing myself of a chair and sitting on the floor and let them pounce on me. I was running and playing catch and dancing to Hanna Montana, or the Wiggles. Life can be amazing if you think of all the possibilities you have right in front of you.

You have yourself a great day!
Jamie