Finding Direction

Lately I have been struggling to find the balance in being a mom, wife, and entrepreneur.  Everyone is getting jipped by how scattered I have been lately…but most importantly I have been unhappy.  Things have got to change.   

I came across this quote the other day:

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. 

Just take the first step.” 

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

It seems to be fitting advice for me right now.  I feel as if I have so much I want to accomplish and I am getting pulled in so many directions and I feel so overwhelmed by it all and I don’t know where to start and how to focus.  I find myself falling prey of analysis paralysis trying to have the answer to it all and beating myself up because I don’t have the answers.  It is my analytical nature to be this way.  But I need to remind myself that I don’t need the answer to it all, I just need to have a direction to move in and the path will become apparent.  Some pieces of the puzzle will fit into place, some may need a little coaxing and others I may find do not fit at all….but I will never know unless I start.

But how do you start?  Do you take the path of least resistance, the path that is the most challenging, the one most exciting?  I have decided that my first step should be to start by removing things from my life that don’t make me happy and work on strengthening the things that do make me happy.  Sounds like time for a list…..   

Ask “Why?” Wednesday…

I am breaking with the traditional Wednesday blog posts many people do called “Wordless Wednesday” because any of you out there that have a pre-schooler in your life know that a day is never wordless, but full of “Why?”  So James, Wednesday is for you…
1.  Why is it I don’t recognize a single movie nominated for the Oscar’s (except for UP) this year but I can tell you what kid show is on what channel and when…
2.  Why is it that I haven’t heard a single one of the songs that were nominated for the Grammy’s yet I can sing along to all of the Fresh Beat Bands songs…and will actually spontaneously start singing one of their obnoxious yet catchy jungles on my own.
3.  Why did I even notice that the Fresh Beat Band was previously called the Jump Arounds…
4.  Worse yet, why did I care enough about that name change that I actually had to Google it to find out…
5.  When will I start to be able to enjoy movies and music beyond rating PG again? 
6.  Why do I still pay for a Netflix subscription when the last movies we got from them have been sitting on the end table for about 6 weeks now….

Ask “Why?” Wednesday…

Inspired by my pre-schooler and his incessant ability to ask the question “Why?”, I figured I would dedicate a blog day just to questions I have. And so I chose Wednesday as a way to contradict the often found “Wordless Wednesday” by many bloggers. So here are my questions today inspired by one of my least favorite chores…

1. Why is it that the cat litter all of a sudden smells so foul just before company comes over?

2. Why is it that a sleeping baby always wakes up just as I start to change the cat litter?

3. Why is it that the cats are lined up to test out the clean cat litter before I even get the lid back on?

4. Why does the dog look longingly at the disposed of cat litter as if I am disposing a bag of snacks?

5. Why don’t they make cat food that is dye free? So now onto the next clean-up chore…