The Energized Woman

I just finished my audio blog for today, and I am feeling really good!  Now that summer is here, my schedule has shifted a bit since school is out and the structure that I had during the school year feels like it has disappeared.

Because of this, I find that it’s been a challenge to get myself into “work mode” at times.  I feel pulled in so many other directions, and my energy reserves have decreased because of the increased demands. 

During the school year I created my audio blog every Wednesday, and for the summer I have chosen to do every-other-Wednesday.  As today progressed, I found myself not really feeling like I wanted to do the audio blog.

You know how that can be…you find yourself in the land of “I just don’t feel like…”  This is a place I visit from time-to-time, and if you’re human, then you probably do, too.

But in the afternoon, as I sat down at my computer because my kids had gone across the street to play, I got a little nudge.  Not the “you should be doing this…” kind of nudge, but the “you’ve made a commitment that you know you want to keep and here’s an opportunity for you to do so”  kind. 

So I went ahead and scheduled the audio blog on Blog Talk Radio, and I moved forward with the call.  I basically put one foot in front of the other.

Once I was on the call, the enthusiasm and passion returned.  I was feeling so good. 

If I had waited for those feelings to arrive first, I probably would not have done the audio blog at all today.  I would have let myself off the hook, and rationalized with a variety of reasons for why today just wasn’t a good day to do it. 

I also would have gone to bed tonight with that icky feeling – you know the one, kind of a knot-like feeling in your stomach that you get when you’ve let yourself down. 

And you know what else would have happened?  It would have made it easier to not follow through the next time.

That’s why breaking a commitment that we’ve made to ourselves can be such a slippery slope.

Especially when it comes to your health goals, the old “I really don’t feel like getting on the treadmill today…” can lead to letting yourself off the exercise hook for weeks (or more!).

What I’d like to leave you with is that sometimes the action precedes the feelings.  It’s natural to have days where we just don’t feel like doing something.  But once we start getting into motion, we find that the feelings somehow show up;-).

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