Motivation

Why am I so lacking in motivation?  I have been trying to study for 3 days and just can't get into it. It's happening in spits and spurts and it takes so little to distract me and make me lose focus.  Ugh!

Last night, the sky looked very promising for a beautiful sunset, so I pedalled to a new spot along the river, where I have never been to see the sun going down before.

The tide was out, so there was only a small channel of water left in the river, which reflected the light quite nicely, but the sunset itself was quite disappointing.

I met a man who was staying in one of the holiday rental properties with his wife.  He was from the suburb of Aspley, in Brisbane, and was keen to tell me about some idvds that he had been making for his family because his mother was turning 90.

He was disappointed that none of the younger family members seemed to want to know anything about her history and never asked her questions.  He said that she had wonderful stories to tell and that time was running out for the family to hear them.

It reminded me that I promised a friend that I would do a blog post about the sorts of questions you should ask your older family members before it's too late.

I've had the reminder to do this, sitting on my desk for about a month or more ... I just haven't had the time to sit down and think about it .. I could use that as an excuse to procrastinate when I should be studying!

So I hope to have those questions to post here soon.  Not today though.

Today, for the first time in about 4 weeks, I made myself a smoothie.

A bit over a week ago, I made packets of fruit and veggies to put into the freezer, to make it easier when I was ready for smoothies.  I used the first one today!

My study has put me into a new schedule and my smoothies seem to have slipped out of the morning routine.  I have noticed the difference in my energy levels and how my body is working, so it's time to bring them back into my morning schedule.

Started today and will continue from here on in.  Maybe my brain will work better and my motivation for study will return with the new energy!

No more coffee after lunch (which I stupidly did yesterday and couldn't sleep til almost 2am) and I must get myself into better sleep habits.

It's so easy to slip into bad habits if you don't keep focus on your own well being.

I think 'habit' is the operative word here.  It supposedly takes 3 weeks to create a habit .. I suspect it takes about the same amount of time to lose one.  That's exactly what I've done.

Time to get back on track.

Nite all.