Everything we do, we do for a reason. That reason is called motivation. I’m not feeling particularly motivated at the moment, but just because I’m not feeling it doesn’t mean I’m not. So as I try to avoid looking at the bills packed into the bill organizer looming on the shelf above my head and inadvertently end up glancing over at those three baskets full of clean laundry that have need folding for about a week, I can’t help but wonder, where is my motivation?
Now I know that there is literally a ton of 2007 bookkeeping to be done and a pile of filing tottering dangerously close to the edge of the cabinet over my right shoulder. I also know that Hubby and my closets are a wardrobe black hole and jungle respectively, but why is it that I never seem to get around to them? If I were a lazy person then I would have an easy explanation for it all. But I’m not. If I were your regular run of the mill disorganized person I would also have an easy out. But I’m not. So how is it that the “to do list” keeps getting longer while the “things done list withers into non-existence? Keeping in theme, I’m going to guess it’s a question of motivation.
It all boils down to motivation or the lack thereof. For some inexplicable reason, I am motivated to do everything except what I should be doing. Life has an odd way of becoming overwhelming like that sometimes. My brain equates being overwhelmed with being paralyzed when it comes to obligation and literally free as a bird when it comes to doing whatever I so please.
So someone please tell me, does all this make me a lousy homemaker? Wife? Mother? I don’t know right now, and to tell you the truth, I’m not really motivated enough to care.
I’m off to work on revising my “to do” list and revamping my motivation.
No no no!
What you’re doing is just putting off the tasks that can wait. Laundry, that can wait until all your clean clothes are gone. Letting housework go is just a way of getting all the truly important stuff done, so don’t worry about being a bad wife or homemaker or mom. Best to be a happy mom!
Bills/work… that’s a little different. Money is stressful, and it’s hard to get things done that don’t have a clear deadline. I feel your pain on that. I can’t even tell you what bills I have that I’m ignoring. Sigh. I hope they don’t come and take my Honda while I’m sleeping.
Good luck revising the to do list. I’m with ya!
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that is funny.
some tasks are just so boring… like folding laundry.
I’ve been asking myself something similar lately. I tried telling myself I was lazy but then I knew that wasn’t true because I work myself hard (too hard some days). I have piles of laundry on my spare bed begging for attention. I don’t know where any of my clothes are. But I just don’t care at the moment.
The photo on this blog really says it all. When there is a lot on our to do list, we first take care of the screaming baby. Sometimes literally. Sometimes the “screaming baby” is grocery shopping, because there is no food, or sometimes it is washing yet another load of sheets or towels, instead of folding what was washed last week.
We have all been there. Such is life.
I have so totally been there and continue to be there some days as well. The only reason I have not paid bills lately is because I ran out of checks. Hah! So there! I can’t pay them! Sometimes I just want to watch tv, and be left alone. I think it’s okay to feel that way! My medication helps too. LOL
I don’t think it’s a matter of motivation or laziness. It’s just that “all those things” aren’t fun. And sometimes, we just gotta have fun.