Busy Mums

Do What you always do and Get what you always got?

If you are tearing your hair out with the weather and the kids are already driving you potty then you might want to try doing something different.

When life isn't going smoothly it can be really easy to grumble and moan about everything that is going wrong, or getting on your nerves, but never actually doing anything about it. (And then guess what things get even worse).

I know I am guilty of this sometimes. Sometimes it is because we are stuck and just can not decide on the best course of action to take. Sometimes it is just because we quite enjoying doing the victim thing.

Often we will seek the advice and support of friends who will share their solutions and observations of the situation, which we then completely ignore and carry on talking about our latest problem.

And if you are the one on the receiving end of the grumbling, how frustrating is that!

Perspective and objectivity is a great thing and we all possess it but not about ourselves.

So if something is getting you down or irritating you try taking a step back and tackling the problem in a different way.

Still stuck - then talk to a friend or a close family member and ask how they see the problem.

Listen to what they say and rather than disregard it with the familiar yes...... but.....syndrome, see how perhaps you can take some, or all of their wise words and use it.

You never know you might not get what you have always got but something different and a lot better.

Now I am off to take my own advice.

Labels: busy mothers, happy kids, keeping kids busy

posted by Diana and Steve @ 12:59 1 Comments

The good thing about Floods

I am normally so profound but this is my thought for the day.

I am lucky enough (at the moment anyway) not to have been flooded out like many people throughout the UK seem to have been this summer. Sometimes it isn't till we lose something which we have taken for granted that we start to appreciate how lucky we were - or indeed are.



My husband's family live in Gloucester and although none of them have been flooded nearly all are currently without water. It seems like a real team effort is going on up there to help each other out and serve the wider community.

My Mum is always telling me that this was what it was like during the war....

The thing is that now most of the time we are just busy doing our own thing and it isn't until a crisis occurs either to us, or someone we know that we jump into action.

Sometimes such a small act of kindness or thoughtfulness can bring unexpected pleasure to the giver as much as the receiver.

Labels: floods, gifts

posted by Diana and Steve @ 13:53 0 Comments

Get more productive - Get some fresh Air

Have you been outside today and got some fresh air?

Going for a walk - or even just sitting outside in the garden in the fresh air can be a real mood enhancer.

If you work in an office there maybe an unspoken pressure to work through lunch. Or perhaps you may feel that you have not time to take lunch. The thing is research shows that people are more productive, have greater creativity if they take breaks. And to take a break and get some fresh air, whatever the weather, whatever the season, will enhance your mood, give you more energy and ultimately that will lead to an increase in productivity.

Try it and keep a diary of the days you take lunch and get out in the fresh air and the days you don't. It works. I promise you will feel so much better and be so much more productive.

posted by Diana and Steve @ 12:40 0 Comments