Balance

My Goal in life is to balance everything! My spiritual, emotional, physical, and Mental well being. Plus all the roles and responsibilities I have. Like being a wife, mom, friend,daycare owner etc. I want to be the best me there is..... but I sometimes am so worried about being the best mom, that I forget to keep up with my physical well being goals of eating right and getting exercise. Or I am so concerned with having a great daycare, that I slack on my mental well being like keeping up on my school work. I struggle with keeping everything balanced. So I have to make sure that I take the time out to look at goals that Ive set for myself in each of these areas, and organize my thoughts so that I am not forgetting about something that is important to me. whew!

sometimes you got to push on

There are times when we get board of doing the same old things. the same old cleaning, laundry, daily chores. but we just have to keep on doing them anyway! It seems like a viscous circle. This is what some call just grin and bare it! but If we look around at the, almost done without thinking, chores we can find a beauty inside. What I mean by this is that we can use this time to reflect on important things in our life, what we are thankful for. we are also making a home this way. It seems that while we are beautifying our house by cleaning it is looking better and better and helping us to feel better about ourselves too. Like my last post about our outward beauty, the beauty of our house is important too for most of the same reasons. It Makes it all worth while!

Beauty

I think God might have let it be the woman's nature to desire to be beautiful. Not to be vain, but so we remember to better our self. To take care of our self. So that we exercise and stay healthy, and pamper ourselves.
Of coarse this could be very bad if we let it consume us and become vain or can't stand ourselves and hate our self. We need to be balanced in this area!
Sometimes we hear that we are beautiful from people that are obligated to tell us that (like our husbands) And we know that God created us and he doesn't make mistakes ,etc. But It  is not the same as having a healthy " I know that I am beautiful" from our self when we look in the mirror.
I have not very many times felt that I am a beautiful girl. Every once in a while when I get all dressed up, and hair done just right, I will think "wow, not too bad" but more often, I look in the mirror and say, "Cheryl you need some work, like around the middle and if only you didn't have so many freckles......." So just like we need to work on our spiritual well being, our financial well being, relationship well being, and mental well being,  I think it's also important to work on our physical well being: staying healthy, by exercising and eating right, and also by taking care of your appearance like having nice hair styles, and wearing clothes that fit nicely and flatter your appearance. You will feel better about your self and have a healthy selfesteem.
Just remember to not spend all of your time on this alone!

I want this blog to mean something years from now, so I am going to start posting more regulaly. Like once a week. I don't have anyone holding me accountable, so I will have to go against my will. Like I have to on so many other things... exersizing, eating healthy, cleaning my house, geting up in the morning... the usual.