Day 35 on my journey: Prosperity buddy…

On this day I had my first chat with my prosperity buddy. We were finally able to agree on a time. All through the conversation, there was a terrible static. I have a really cheap headphone with a microphone. I think it must have been that causing the terrible noise. I hope to get another, better one soon.

We talked about the past and our present situation. It was really nice to talk to her. This is an important milestone for me. I mean in terms of connecting to others. We’re planning to have a chat every week or every two weeks.

I worked on my website’s redesign some more. It is close to finished. For some reason I am a bit apprehensive to uploading the new pages. I’m sure it’ll be fine, but I don’t feel confident enough.

A feeling of overwhelm is kreeping in again. There is so much I would like to do, but I just feel like there’s not enough time.

I have some great information and advice on dealing with overwhelm.

Time to get that out of the closet and implement it…

Day 21 on my journey: Feeling overwhelmed…!

I love surfing the Net and gathering information on the topic of personal development. I love doing it, but it takes time. As you may know already I also work about 4 hours a day, but it takes me 2 hours to go back and forth to work, so that means 6 hours out of my day go for working on my day job.

I wake up at 6am and go to sleep preferably at 10pm, but most of the time I don’t sleep before 11.30pm. So from 6am to 11.30pm is 17.5 hours. Take out 6 hours and I’m left with 11.5 hours. Take out another 2 hours for picking up and dropping of my girls to school and I’m left with 9.5 hours. It takes me about an hour to cook and eat, so 8.5 hours left. Take out another hour for getting ready in the morning and before going to sleep. 7.5 hours left.

I still breastfeed my youngest daughter, which takes up about an hour a day. That means I have 6.5 hours left.

This sounds like a lot of time, at least to me, but it’s spread through the day. In between taking my kids to school and picking them up, breastfeeding, cooking, eating, going to work…

So I have about an hour and a half in the morning, 45 minutes to an hour in the early afternoon and then about 4.5 hours in the evening. I know it doesn’t really add up, because I have not taken out the time for personal hygiene, relaxing, etc.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that most of the time I feel like I don’t have enough time to do what I’d like to do. Oh I forgot to say that when my kids are home they interrupt me every 10 to 20 minutes…grrr!

So on this 21st day of my journey I listened to a audio/video clip about dealing with overwhelm. It was very helpful, because what they basically said is that there are some tools to help you do it, but you have to change some of your habits and put the tools in practice. Otherwise it’s no use.

I am doing a few e-courses and this great program on dealing with money issues right now. I am learning so much and with the help of the e-course on overwhelm I already learned that I don’t mind spending a lot of time on learning.

On another occasion I’ll make a list of the things that are important to me in life and how much time I would like to spend on them…

You know, GET ORGANIZED!!!