spend more time outdoors

Attention Overwhelmed Working Mums!

If you have read the FREE“Stressed to Refreshed” eBookYou will know that one of the

Things I recommend is spendingMore time outdoors. So simpleSo straight forward. So obvious

RIGHT?


So simple that I only wrote 4 lines on the subject. So obvious

that, you might have thought “is that it….” Well it’s in there

because it’s a GREAT stress reliever yet most of us, me

included, don’t always do it.

Attention Overwhelmed Working Mums!Shortly before writing this I was fed up, totally fed up! Something wasn’t going

according to plan and it was draining me. Don’t get me

wrong, I believe we can choose how to react to a situation but I

was totally choosing to feel sorry for myself.


The problem with feeling sorry for yourself is that the longer

that feeling lasts the harder it is to change. After a while I

decided that I needed to follow my own advice.


I had been neglecting to do any form of exercise because “I

didn’t have the time” but there is NO FAILURE ONLY FEEDBACK

and the feedback was:


“Stop being so ridiculous Julia, you don’t have time to feel

sorry for yourself, so make time to exercise”

Attention Overwhelmed Working Mums!My favorite exercise is taking my two dogs for a walk along

the beach. It’s a win – win, the dogs love it, I get exercise and

Vitamin D (the happiness vitamin remember) and I can

either sing along to my iPod, if the beach is empty or listen to

a motivational podcast or a recorded book.


Looking back though they all has one thing in common, they were insecure. I didn’t realize

this at the time and many people viewed them as

confident because that wad the way they acted at work.


A tip I picked up when studying Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) was to rate your feeling before and after to see how

effective what you are doing is. I was really NOT in the mood to go out and on a scale of 1-10 of

how I felt I was a 3. But I wrapped up and set off.


The beach was empty and the tide was out which made me

smile straight away, I could let the dogs off the lead and not worry about Alfie (the feisty

one) getting into trouble.


When I stood on the beach and looked out at the horizon, as usual it made me realize how insignificant my “problems”

were.


By the time I got home I was a 7 and feeling much more

positive and raring to go with my “challenge”


So, as soon as I’ve finished this I’m off to take the dogs for a

walk…


What are you going to do to do to make today a great day?

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