Derailed

            What derails you?


                        
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You are chugging away, doing stuff, cleaning stuff...you finally feel like you have your mojo back.

You might even be right on track with the Fly Lady steps and CRASH BOOM POOF

Its all gone

You've been pushed off the tracks and suddenly that little engine that could...can't.

Why? What happened?


On Sunday my best friend got married. This is the first marriage for both her and her groom. He's 50 and she's in her forties. They both waited a long time, but it certainly paid off because they make a beautiful couple.

A few weeks before the wedding I had to take my own mom to the ER twice, my daughter had to come home from school because of a bad case of the flu, and my own arthritis was in rare form as it attacked my knees with a vengeance. I also had to work on a few extra last minute crafts for the wedding.

I was pooped.

What derails me?

Anything that is out of the ordinary.

Anything that cuts into the routine that I have established (or tried to establish...remember the 66 day rule for establishing a new habit?)

When emergencies happen...

      When things take my attention away from tasks at home

            It completely derails me.

Its like one moment, I feel like I have it all under control

     and the next I look around and I'm back at square one and sometimes (if I'm honest) minus one.

It makes me feel like a failure

It makes me feel like just giving up and calling a local real estate agent and selling the house with all its contents ...cheap.

But I cannot.

I have to face this head on.

I am giving myself one week.

One week to make sense of this place.

Sometimes dead lines are good...

Deadlines tend to light that fire and keep us moving especially if at the end of the time limit there are guests that are coming over.

You know what also lights that fire? Visiting someone else's home.

If I visit someone else's home (that seems to have I all together) well that makes you come back to your own and want to straighten it out big time.

So whatever it is that will get you out of the funk of failure...do it!

Give yourself a dead line. If you feel you cannot do the whole house in that dead line...its OK. Make the deadline for one area...one room.

Get yourself moving again in the right direction.

The goal is to keep moving forward.

Do not sit there in the wreckage too long.

Get up and move.

and before you know it...

That train will be back on track chugging away.
                               
                          


       Well....here I go!