I'm so happy to share that Amity is Covid free! We had the test result come back this evening and it was negative which was great news. She still feels under the weather and now I'll have to phone the GP and see if she has a chest infection but at least Isla can go back to school tomorrow and I can go grocery shopping again as Isla's lunch tomorrow is going to be a very interesting fridge dreg affair.
Today I set up my 90 day plan and started on taking decided action towards starting a business. It's very hard to take decided action when you're still not 100% sure what direction you're going in, but I have decided to pursue the organising business for 90 days and see where I end up and what I learn along the way. I'm not ruling out other money making opportunities and I quite like the idea of continuing to write and finding a way to involve photography but think perhaps I can incorporate those things in the business model as well.
I listened to Mel Robbins this morning. I love her. She is one of my favourite business coachy type people because she just tells it like it is. The talk I listened to today was on motivation and she basically says, you will never be motivated to do what you need to do, so you just need to train yourself to do things anyway. This mentality works for me as I do always wait till I feel motivated, but am realizing that's probably never going to happen, so I really do just need to stop faffing about and get on with the practical side of things.
I find taking action sometimes really drains me and makes me need a nap. I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but if I do something really out of my comfort zone or sometimes just something I've put off for a long time, I then literally feel like falling asleep afterwards. I realize this is something I probably need to overcome as running a business will require me to do all kinds of things out of my comfort zone and there's not really enough time in the day to nap after every action (although I think I would enjoy that kind of day as I do love a good nap.) I took action today by contacting someone in Grantham about my idea and seeing if we could partner to offer something to her clients. Just writing that sentence makes me feel tired.
I'm still trying to figure out what I'm afraid of or why I find it so hard to take decided action. So if anyone has any ideas on how to just kick yourself into gear, then I'm open to suggestions!
I'm doing my 90 day plan in three areas of my life. For my business/career, for my finances, and for my spiritual life. I have to do something concrete in each of these areas every day for the next 90 days and then I'm going to see where I'm at compared to where I am now. I'm hoping it will be an interesting experiment and end up being beneficial. I think it will also help me filter out the stuff I'm distracted by and keep me focussed on those three areas. Perhaps it will exhaust me so much that I need to go to bed for the last few days but I'm determined to sustain it for the next 90 days so by 13 December 2020, I should be a better version of myself.
My quote for today is from a writer's training that I did today. "The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave it neither power nor time." Mary Oliver
My photo today is a selfie of me napping. Haha that amuses me. But seriously if you're a nap loving person, the best power nap I've found is by listening to this video on YouTube. He has different lengths of nap as well if you just search Jody Hatton's power naps.
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