The Truth About Choices, Martyrdom & Being Too Busy
When our lives feel overloaded, it can seem like we don’t have much room to be flexible. We can feel like we don’t have much choice.
Sometimes we really don’t have much choice. After all, somebody’s got to feed and change the baby, right? Somebody’s got to bring home the paycheck, pick up the groceries, take the car in for an oil change…. You get the idea.
But, sometimes I think we say “I can’t do that” before we even consider what our choices are. It feels impossible. As if it’s out of our hands. We sometimes feel stuck.
This is something I see in my office or with the groups I facilitate quite a lot. There’s always at least one mom that says “I’d love to have the time to do _________, but I just can’t right now. I don’t have much choice.”
You can fill in the blank there. Whether it’s time for exercise, time for friends, time for couples therapy, time for their passion project or hobby…. We moms, tend to put things that matter to us on the back burner.
The same goes for money. We’d love to hire a babysitter and have more consistent date nights. We’d love to join that gym. We’d love to do a workshop on self-care or book an appointment at that salon or sign up for a dance class. But, in the scheme of things, it just doesn’t seem justifiable financially when we also have to pick up a new pack of diapers before they run out, make another car payment--oh and we keep forgetting to cancel those app subscriptions we don’t use anymore.
I get it. We’re all overburdened.
But today, I’ve got a little tough love for you.
There are a lot of little choices we make every single day. And they all add up. They can either consume our time and money, little by little, or they can free some of it up.
So, no more excuses. Let’s figure out how you can make a little room for the things that you say matter to you.
Check out the video below for some ways to make it happen.
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