Well after yesterday’s post I feel kind of “cleansed”. My motivation is picking up. A few things helped greatly.

First I want to thanks Aurelia of Real Life Solutions. Your comments yesterday were awesome. And not just the ones that boast my ego. The suggestion to write things down. Which leads me to my second.

I have been working on my organizer. Now this can be a task itself. But I think the time I have spent organizing my todo list into my calender will pay off greatly.

I have certain task that need to be done at a certain time. I have given myself a deadline of a few days before. This helps in several way. It helps me feel more in control of my time and my life.

I have done this for my work and my moving schedule. These are the two things that are really important at the moment. The kids school work has been planned out like this for awhile. Why didn’t I think of doing it for other things? Now all I need to do for the next 11 weeks is open my day planner every morning and look what needs to be done and what is coming up. I have the date the movers are coming, inspections, and even a cleaning room routine.

So with that I have a few other things. I have been using Facebook more and more. Check mine out at http://profile.to/judithdavis/ One of the main attractions is that I have my Goddaughter who is there and now I have 5 of my beautiful nieces on facebook as well. I never thought of it as a tool to keep up with my family, but it is very nice. I also have some great business friends there as well. And have meet some great contacts. So the time there is so much better than myspace, imho.

The next big thing is that this morning I purchased Natural From Home. This is a whole new kind of project for me. But is right up my alley. Hits my target market and allows me to use my education. See Ma? All those fancy diplomas on the wall are starting to pay off!

Well I am off to work. See I am back to writing. Life is good!

I am not quite sure why, but every year around Feb, March and April I fall into the blaahhhs.

I start the year out well, dare I even say, on fire, but then the middle of February it seems that I have no motivation. It seems I struggle through these months. As can be seen by the lack of entries in my blog lately.

This year seems especially difficult. It is just 10 weeks until we move. Not just across town, mind you, but across country.

So I need to find my focus. I need to write. I need to blog. Blogging is very therapeutic for me. It is like my mini motivator. Though I may not have a readership in the hundreds like others, it is just the fact that I can share thoughts, ideas and dare I say it motivation!

This is my source of income. Not my blog, but my online endeavors. I need to become more focused and more regimented.

Maybe that is my issue. I need to find more structure. I know many Work At Home Moms work at home to avoid just that. But when providing a service and fulfilling contracts, one has to start scheduling. I have tried to implement a daily schedule, but things come up. Neighbors drop in, friends call, I have to run out and do errands. These are the things that distract me. I really need to do away with these kind of things.

As far as motivation? Well I need to work on it. I guess maybe I will go back to the dress for success and daily blogging. If I make myself do it for a day or so, it really does become easier and easier!

So tell me, do you find troubles with motivation at certain times of year? How do you work through it? Share tips with me! Would love to hear how other WAHMs deal!

Well Yesterday was Wordless Wednesday, Take a look at mine here.

Now I know you are thinking what in the world??

Well on Tuesday we went for a little visit to the Fountain of Youth. You see that trickle of water? Well that is the famed water that will make you live forever. OK so the tour guide told the kids if they were under 18 and drank it, they could live at home forever (not sure about that) and she claimed that she was 256 years old. Looked pretty good for her age.

I did take a drink. But I have to say, it had a really high sulfur content, so I only had a little. There were people there filling up water bottles of the stuff.

So if you want to live forever take a trip to St Augustine, Florida and stop here at the Fountain of Youth and take a drink!

Have a great Tell Me Thursday!