Habits gone awry

What happened to my blogging every day (or nearly) habit? It just fell off the face of the internet world! I suppose there were extenuating circumstances (away for 5 days w/o computer access - woohoo, sick chid, sister-in-law visiting, etc. etc.) but I'm back and in the meantime, boy have I made leaps and bounds in other areas.

I finally finished my nutritional assessments and sent them off - I thought it was about time I just sat myself down and got it done. Feels sooooo good! And I've created a Biggest Loser group in our village and have been very busy managing that - also feels soooo good! Especially since I've been eating healthier, starting my mornings with that darn hot water/lemon drink that I couldn't get in the habit of - so I kinda dropped one habit and gained about 5 others!

There are a few times this week and last where I've based my decisions on whether I would look back on something in five or so years (or 1, or 10) and regret it. It's a great way of making decisions. One of them was to visit a Hutterite community. I'm not really overly interested - in fact, I think I'd want to pile all the women up in my car and and take them away (not 100% sure, but I don't think women have that good a life), but then I thought about it 'would I ever get the chance to visit this community again and if not, would I regret my decision in a couple years' So I let that sit in the back of my mind and then came up with. You know what - no, I wouldn't. The only thing I was thinking is that I would, if it ever came up in conversation, be able to say to someone that I'd been to a community and why is that important to me. If it was an Amish community which had no electricity and no vehicles, I would find that much much more interesting - but these people are just farmers with specific religious beliefs that live in a community together.

I think that regret issue also helps me to motivate myself. If I don't feel like doing something, I think 'in five years when my children are older and I'm working and I look back to that time I was a stay-at-home Mom with my two young children, will I look back on that time and regret that I didn't do more, that I was just lazy and non-motivated'. That usually really gets me moving!

So there you go - lesson for today. Think about regrets - we don't want to be 90 and thinking back on our life, regretting certain moments, we want to think back and have the memories put a huge smile on our faces!