Snooze The Day
You've heard them all before:
"Live every day as if it were your last."
"Dance like nobody's watching."
"Just do it."
"Seize the day."
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
I find it nearly impossible to keep these words of motivation close to my heart when the kids are bickering, the yard is full of weeds, the cats are shedding on the clean laundry, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in seven years.
As much as anyone, I'd like to get up each morning and accomplish great things, but there's the little matter of the mundane duties of life that get in the way.
Being perpetually tired doesn't help. And, if presented with a wide variety of ways to spend my day, I would likely choose the one involving a long nap and maid service.
How do you seize your day?
"Live every day as if it were your last."
"Dance like nobody's watching."
"Just do it."
"Seize the day."
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
I find it nearly impossible to keep these words of motivation close to my heart when the kids are bickering, the yard is full of weeds, the cats are shedding on the clean laundry, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in seven years.
As much as anyone, I'd like to get up each morning and accomplish great things, but there's the little matter of the mundane duties of life that get in the way.
Being perpetually tired doesn't help. And, if presented with a wide variety of ways to spend my day, I would likely choose the one involving a long nap and maid service.
How do you seize your day?
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 12:45 AM
6 Comments:
Interestingly enough this has been preying on my mind recently.
I'm not sure if I'm honest. And I too have to combat the whole lack of sleep thing, plus a job where management pressure is increasingly becoming intolerable.
I'm currently eating better and it seems to be working. Even when I was dieting I wasn't eating completely correctly. I had a few set meals I liked which I just repeatedly made. they may have been low in calories, but they were low in vitamins too.
And walking is good. I use it as "me time" not exercise as such.
When all those things that you mentioned are bothering me, and they often do, I go for a day trip: Train park, hiking, lake, whatever. I come back refreshed and more willing to attack whatever overload of work I'm facing.
That's a tough one. Being a parent of young kids can be very demanding. I think trading a day off with your wife every few weeks is a great idea. Just a day alone to do as you please. It's a win-win for sure.
Exactly!!
Coming home from full day's work, thinking what's for dinner, bathing little one, cleaning up after, folding washing etc etc. I am starting to go to bed later and later, not getting enough sleep either and lacking again in doing exercises, rushing here rushing there and the next morning just to find I forgot to buy milk the day before.
We are not alone, but that sure doens't fix a thing :-)
I got your message, thanks looking fw to my little gift!!
"A day alone to do as I please..."
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh my, you always make me laugh, Jeff.
Seize the moment for me usually involved chocolate and wine and a lot of wasted time here, in front of the screen, then occasionally we have an amazing day like today.
I think if we lived every day like our last, we'd be so tired we'd just melt into a puddle.
I like the idea of valuing each minute and thinking either this is fantastic or this too shall pass.
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