Another Stream of Consciousness Sunday has arrived & what is today’s writing prompt? Write about the distractions you have right now.
As I finished up a blog post last night where I just emptied my mind & wrote about whatever mattered to me - I felt so liberated - whether anyone else cared about what was important to me was irrelevant. I wish I could recreate that feeling in everything else I do.
Being a working Mom presents so many distractions - things that pull your focus away from living your own life & drop you into the world of making other people happy. My biggest distraction right now is myself. I have so many unmet goals & expectations that life is becoming a pacifier. It's okay because I'm busy with this & that, so what I need is not so important.
Problem is - I need to be important and I need to feel worthy of better. Worthy to go after my dreams for a better career, a more fulfilling day-to-day existence, richer friendships, and of course a better body.
All those things will help me be a better wife & mother - all the pieces would start to fall into place. But until I check my own distractions at the door and start living a life I am totally satisfied with, nothing else will feel whole, complete or fulfilling.
Something I know many of us struggle with.
My time is up!
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
Set a timer and write for 5 minutes only.
§ Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
§ Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
§ Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
§ Link up your post at all.things.fadra
§ Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.
If you liked this post, you might also enjoy: Back in the Saddle Again or Mn Blogger Conference 2011 - Take Two
3 comments:
That was awesome! I'm recently going through a ton of changes in my life, one of them being I just realized how much time I put into everyone else which was making me extremely unhappy. You have to catch it before it's to late, I waited too long. So kudos to you go gettem and always remember to take of you!
This is powerful! I'm a working single mom so I can so relate to what you're saying.
When I wrote my post about distractions, I was actually focusing on the moment. The immediate distractions that keep me from writing. Now you have me pondering the bigger distractions I have in life. Now to figure out how to clear them away...
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