I think there’s a song in there somewhere…. Anyways, today I’m gonna talk about feeling better. I think in order for anyone to feel better they should start with feeling better about themselves. I don’t know very many truly confident women. Sure, we’re confident in some areas, not so much in others. For me, despite how much of a funk I can get into, I’m confident in my Faith. I’m confident I’m a good mom. I’m confident I’m a good friend. I lack in other areas. I’m not so confident about self image, my career, my purpose in life to name just a few. So, what do you guys do to help build your character? We should all look to God for that of course because he is our Creator and he loves us. He wants us to be confident thru Him. But I think there are other things we can do to help ourselves. I’m no counselor but here are some things I’m going to do to help ME. I’m gonna work on building ME and the REAL me. Here’s what I wanna do:
1. I want to focus less on stuff and more on Life. I want to do more things with my kids. Although I know I’m a good mom, sometimes STUFF can wait. Chores can wait, clothes can wait, phone calls and emails can wait. This all kind of goes hand in hand with my purpose. Surely my purpose here (or part of it) is to be the mother God called me to be. I want to spend less time washing dishes and scrubbing floors and more time playing Monopoly and reading bedtime stories.
2. I want to work on feeling better about the outer me. I want to sit at my desk less, stand at the sink less, drive in the car less and get outside. I want to exercise in whatever form I can get it. That’s the good thing about having kids, you can kill two birds with one stone. I want to go to the park and play a game of baseball with the kids, I want to go for walks and ride bikes with them. I want to swim while I can and run outside while it’s not too cold. I want to sweat! Sweating makes me feel good!
3. I want to work on feeling better about the inner me. I want to learn to take a compliment. I want to be more confident in the person God’s calling me to be….whoever that is. I want to be a better learner so I can be a better teacher.
4. I want to work more. I’ve been in a funk about not working lately. I want to push myself harder and know that I can stand on my own two feet. After years of not working and being a stay at home mom I kinda struggle with where my position is on that. Although I’m actively working in bringing my kids up I feel inadequate in the sense that I’m not the “bread-winner”. I want to change that. Any stay at home mom can relate to that. It feels good to know we can balance the two. I plan to get out and shoot more and book more Scentsy parties. (Yeah I’m kinda addicted to the stuff)
5. I want to figure out the real me. The me I feel like kinda got buried while I’ve been shuffling through life since having kids. Again, any mom knows sometimes we wake up, feed kids, get them off to school, go to work (or not) get home, do homework, dinner, baths, and bed. We wake up and repeat again the next day. My kids are getting a little older and a little more independent so I’m not really sure where I fit in sometimes. I want to figure that out.
Okay I guess that’s it. I read a scripture the other day that I want to share. It applies especially to stay at home moms. I like it.
Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders are in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat-for he grants sleep to those he loves. Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children are a reward from Him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.
Psalm 127: 1-5
Here’s a pic taken by Mel. I thought it was fitting. Reflecting. There are more headshots she did for me that I’ll share in tomorrows post so stay tuned.
