Just do the next right thing.

I know exactly where you are today.... today feels so blah, so normal, nothing special at all. Today feels hard. It feels like you have less patience with your children. It feels like you have less energy than normal. You don’t want to workout, you don’t want to do the dishes, the laundry... none of the things that you know you have to do and you do every single day, but for some reason today it just feels harder.

I FEEEEEEL YOU.

Because that is exactly how I feel today.

I know I need to be productive. I need to get all of this shiz done, but I have no motivation to do it. I already did homeschool with the kids, fed the children so many times, played outside, did some laundry, and now I’m just “done”. But I can’t be done... it’s only 1:15 in the afternoon!! 😭

So what do we do?

Is there something magical I can say to myself or you that will give us all the motivation in the world to do all the things we need to do????

Nope.

There’s not.

So I will just tell you what I am going to do, and maybe just knowing someone else does the “next right thing” even when they don’t feel like it will help you to do the “next right thing”.

And that is just what I am going to do.

I am going to finish this blog post, and then I am going to do my workout.

That will take about 25 minutes.

Then I am going to try and not yell at my kids again like I JUST did. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Then I will do the dishes.

Then I will fold the laundry.

Then I will read a book to my kids.

Then I will just keep doing the next “right thing” over and over until bedtime.

And before you get depressed, and before I get depressed, if I will get up and do all the things I know I need to do, I will feel better. It will NEVER be the other way around. I will NEVER feel better and then do all the things. I always have to MAKE myself do stuff, and then the “doing” is what makes me feel better.

It I sort of like stepping out in faith with God in things. You have to force yourself using sheer discipline to do something and then God will come behind you with the miracle or the faith.

So, let’s go.

Let’s go be the women we are supposed to be.

Not lazy.

Hard working.

Nothing special.... just doing the “next right thing”.

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