Showing posts with label well-being. Show all posts
Showing posts with label well-being. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Giving myself permission


Since my last post I have been giving myself permission to be 'lazy'. Today spent all day at a course, leaving home 7.45am and coming back just before 6pm feeling exhausted. Instead of forcing myself to get things done at home, or feeling guilty about things not getting done, I told myself I deserved to have a lazy night where my only criteria is to stay awake. I need to pick up my son from work and if I fall asleep beforehand I will end up staying up too late after we are back. It is a 20 minute drive each way, and it usually wakes me up to be out and about, especially if I have had an afernoon snooze.

I am still working on getting to bed at a decent time, and it is still not a consistent thing for me. I think it will take a while to 're-tune' this body, and everytime I am staying up late I delay the process.Tonight I have been reading some blog posts, reading the online newspapers and doing some general surfing. Everytime I start to feel the 'should be doing something useful' feeling, I am telling myself that I deserve to have a night off.It is nearly 9.30pm, and I am expecting a phone call any minute now, to say that it is time to go on pick-up duty. Once I am back home, I plan to go to bed and read until I fall asleep, which I don't expect to take long at all....

Monday, October 12, 2009

Sleeping goals and well-being

It has been a while since I posted that I was making improved sleeping habits a goal. I didn't do too well recording how I went with it - probably because I didn't go so well at all! I even ended up having to pull an all-nighter. I have had some nights where I have been getting to bed at a good time, but quite a few where I have been very late.
BUT - I have done some things for 'me'. I have had my hair cut and streaked (not done since the beginning of the year) and I also got my eyebrows tidied up and lashes tinted. I have never had my eyebrows done before, and it did make quite a bit of a difference! A while ago Eilleen at Consumption Rebellion posted about wellbeing goals, and allthough I haven't done any of the things I planned after reading Eilleen's post (reflexology, massage, bushwalk), I have found that 'fixing my outsides' a bit has actually had an effect on how I am feeling about me. Oh, and talking about wellbeing - I can't forget mentioning I read a fiction book - "The Girl with the Dragon tattoo" by Stieg Larsson, which is the first of the books in the Millenium triology.