Mental & Emotional Health

I gave you a set of questions that I presented to you from a Life Coach in the form of a challenge.  I’m curious how many of you answered the questions and how many of you are willing to answer AFTER you read my questions.  So, here’s the challenges:

1.    Do you go to sleep at night feeling rewarded by what you did that day?
2.    Do you look forward to getting up in the morning?
3.    Are you in control of your stress and anxiety at work? At home?
4.    Are you proud of what you do for a living?
5.    Are you happy with the amount of time you set aside to do the things you love?
6.    Are you spending enough quality time with loved ones?
7.    Are you proud of how you take care of yourself both physically and mentally?

And, so, I read Mom to the Masses’s answers before I answered mine.  I mean, you  know, who needs the extra anxiety of being honest on the world wide web and then have some cyber bully come along and make you a nervous wreck.  So, I read her answers and I feel like she was honest.  And, no one has blasted her but, then again, none of her answers were in need of blasting.  I’m not sure how folks will react to mine, but here goes…

I go to bed at night feeling like I did all I could do most days.  I don’t know if I would say rewarded, but definitely I do accomplish most of what I need to.  I have to add that the weekends are an exception because my husband is way too good to me and I sleep too much on the weekends.

I am not going to say I don’t look forward to waking up but I am definitely not a morning person so I would prefer to wake up a little later in the day but I don’t have feelings of just not wanting to wake up at all.

I am no where near in control of my stress but I am way more in control than I have ever been.  For one reason, I gave up on the idea of the clean, neat and organized home when there are 2 small children around.  One goes to school and when he comes home in the afternoons, it’s like a doggone storm has hit the place.  Even if I make the 4 year old clean up all of his crap from the day, the 6 year old seems to be a tornado in action.

I am almost-proud.  My 6 year old has a problem when he learns new words.  He wants to use them even when the timing isn’t right.  For instance, he says, barely instead of almost.  He would say something like "Are we barely there?" and it drives my husband crazy.  So, I’m going to say, "I’m barely proud".

Absolutely not but I do the things I like as often as we can afford to.  We aren’t poor, we just can’t afford to travel like I wish we could and other than having my life as it is right now, traveling is the one thing I’d like to do more of.  And, I’m not asking to travel even to Paris or something, a monthly trip to the beach would suit me just fine if we could afford it.

I spend all of my time with my family.  Is it quality time?  Eh, it’s hard to say.  I spend a lot of time on the computer.   I mean, I spend a LOT of time on the computer.  I’m struggling right now with how to get off of here some during the day when it is just me and the 4 year old so that he has my undivided attention as well as doing the same thing when my husband comes home so that I can either spend extra time with my 6 year old or the four of us can spend time together. 

I have nothing to say about the last one except ABSOLUTELY NOT!