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Hi MsTickle, for starters dust off the books and get reading some of them eh! I find I can lose myself in a good book and it can take you into a different world away from home even whilst still there physically. I find it hard to motivate myself at times and just go throught the motions but I usually find after a stroll out in the fresh air or a cuddle with one of the cats I am usually refreshed enough to get up and do something. I even done the whole of the ironing pile the other day and that is a firs for a long long time as I detest ironging. I used to run my own business and when staff let me down would be ironing til midnight to get out so it is one thing I detest doing now. Music helps too really uplifting tunes can uplift, energise and get you motivated. Ellie :D

I go with how I feel except 3 days a week have to go the therapy . We eat when we get ready clean house when it hits us and I read just before nap time swim when I can wehn the water isnt to cold!

I am a list maker if I don't then I forgethalf what needs done until I am in bed and relaxing and going over the day and then I start remembering all the things I didn't get done. So I have to do the list. Well my motivation is getting on the computer without having hubby gripe to much if chores are done he doens't care as much when I get on but if they aren't he can gripe some.I do cross off my list. I think we all feel bad when we are away from mylot for any amount of time because we feel safe here and it is a great friendly place to be. And we can talk and get advic or give advice and it helps us feel productive and wanted and needed. I myself will when hubby isn't home get one the computer answer a few mylot discussions then do a little housework and go back and forth do 5-10 then back to housework and I usually get it done most times. If reading maybe you can read a few pages or chapter then do mylot and then read another chapter till the book is done. My net is slow so I have plenty time to read as pages load or I am checking mail. I hope you find a solution. Good luck and lots of HUGS! sent your way.

Well I don't do any of those things tickle honey and I have to admit even simple things like phone calls to be made and forms to be filled in can wait for days if not weeks - it would seem that the less I am able to do the less I can motivate myself. I would ask someone to give me a kick up the backside if it wouldn't hurt too much! xxx

I'm so not into house work, only do the laundry so that everyone has clean clothes, the rest gets done when I do feel like it. Husband is in charge of the kitchen, so no dishes for me either! lol. I'm trying to find my writing motivation again at the moment, without much luck. Whatever I do try and write comes out all wrong and I end up throwing it away.

I have a list of all the books i want to read and will cross it off as i go . My fiance and me hung a list on our fridge on all the things we need to buy and repair with this house. This is moving slow tho !

Oh my..I dont have any advice for you cause I'm a do whatever feels right at the time kinda gal LOL...However I DO on occasion (like for this weekend actually) make "To Do" lists....but its rare LOL

I don't know if I can help you. However as I am very much a creature of habit and follow the same basic routine every day. I also never procrastinate so when I have all my daily chores done I spend the rest of the day doing whatever strikes my fancy. BTW I am not married anymore and my family is grown and out of the house so I can do whatever whenever I please.

LOL every day I make a *Things to do* list and every evening I look at the list and realise that I hadn't achieved anywhere near all the chores. I do try to get motivated some times but then I get distracted and find myself on here instead of getting things done.

Hi MsTickle! I usually make a list on what to do for today, so I think I am a list maker. The problem with that is I am not good on following my list. haha..I usually have a routine but that routine is usually being messed up by my husband when he is swamped up with his work and he will need me to assist or help him. So, I guess i am what you may call strike anywhere kinda girl and before I knew it, I am just sitting here in mylot most of the time. haha..However, I usually finish all my chores in the morning before I really spend my time here. Take Care and God Bless!

my problems with my motivations is that i get overwelmed with too much to do. too many projects, too much needing done all at the same time, and it puts me in a "where the phuck do i start?!?!" frame of mind so badly, i wind up not doing much of anything. its very discouraging and frustrating. on these days.. and this is silly, but whatever.. when the place is just bearing down on me with everywhere needing attention.. i will grab one of my little girls super balls.. close my eyes.. and chuck it. then follow it as it bounces wildly around until it comes to a stop. wherever it lands and is still.. is where i begin. as far as staying here on the lot instead of doing other things.. time can fly by without much notice when yer thinking, posting, etc. pick a day to not even turn yer computer on at ALL.. (no one here is going to suffer for you taking some time for yer own self.. the only one that will for you not.. is YOU) dust one of those books off, and dig into that instead. fore ya know it.. youll have chipped away at yer library.

I'm useally pretty good when it comes to motivateing myself. I useally don't need to write out a list for I know what it is I want to do and stick to it for that day. There's other days that I need to write out a list for it depends on how much I have to do and want to get it all done and check it off as I go. Yesterday was a bad one for me I can say for I had things in mind that I wanted to get done had a list and none of it got done so today I shall start w/ that list and what ever dosn't get done I will do tomorrow. As far as you getting to those books in your library just pick a time when you want to pick up one of those books sit down and read for like an hour or so and see how that does for you. It really depends on where you want to fit in the time to do this. I hope you do get to those books for they sound good to read.

So reading your books is on top of your list now huh. well for now, reading is not even on my top 5 list of things to do. I'm very busy with my job hunting and some family emergencies. I have to tend to it. My top 1 is to have a job within this month and I'm looking through the list of known to be the leading companies in the country so I'm crossing my fingers..

i motivate myself by telling myself to be ashamed of myself because i haven't done what i have to do. i live alone so i have to use up my utensils and china before finally deciding to wasgh them all at the same time. my dream is to see that my kitchen is spotless without the dirty dishes.. i'm trying really , in my good mood days, i try to wash my used utensils as soon as i can. i have a laundywoman who comes once a week to wash my clothes, when they are dry i find it really an ordeal to fold them and store them away in y closet so i just tend to get them one by one from where i stack them,oftentimes finding it hard to locate my clothes. i'm lousy at paperworks, infact i hate them, for me as long as i get results real good, why bother to write it down... i know... i know...we need to but what can i do, i'm a weakling. writing down my things to do for the day or reports i urgently need to submit for the week helps me get by. i guess we are all really different individuals, we can't force ourselves to ba as organized as some people we admire for being so. what is important is that we are comfortable with wour own ways... but not to forget... we can always try to improve...

I hope you get some good ideas here, I need to get motivated myself. I have tons of things that I need to get done, and here I be. I am going to have a get together for my moms birthday next month. That will give me some incentive getting some projects done around here.

I thought I posted to this, but it is not here. One friend says to never put more than six things on your daily list, and do each task until it is done. Like, post twenty five points to myLot, then check it off. That fiend says "Quit multitasking, it makes you feel bad." My brother says "Don't should[b][/b] on yourself". I know that I feel withdrawal when I am not here. I am getting ready to go away for a few hours, though.

For me to get through the day it all depends on how my morning starts. If I got a good nights sleep and wasnt rudely woken up by the munchkins then it will be a great day. THen if I dont make myself do something in the morning, then I probably wont do anthing for the rest of the day LOL. I have to get up and do something in the morning start cleaning, eat a good breakfast, get the kids dressed and bathed...whatever it may be.. If I do all that in the morning then I can get everything on my ajenda done....

I wish I could be so organized as to follow lists for daily chores. I'm an anti-list person, for the most part. I like to wing it and see where the day leads me. I go through phases where I have to be on Mylot all the time. And, then I go through times, when I can't stand the place. For six months, I was away and then suddenly came back, cause I needed a little extra money. Just enjoy your time and don't over think the whole process. Life ebbs and flows. Where it goes, we don't know! Be well.

Plan a time of the day when you are going to sit down and read part of one book. Make it the same time very day. Make it clear that this is "me" time and that short of imminent fire, flood or pestilence, no one is to interrupt you. Doesn't have to be for long - 30 minutes is long enough. But read and in bite size chunks. When you've finished one book star on another and so on. That way, you'll have time for yourself to think and to read your library. Happy reading.

Well for me i make a list of things i need to accomplish during a day if there are specific things i really need to accomplish that day. otherwise its left up to chance and i hate my life being chaotic. other days if its just one of those lazy days i don't want to do anything really...then no i don't make a list. at that point its just a waste of a sheet of paper to do so. but even on those days if i see that something is needing to be done i will do it because it needs to be done. i don't always get everything accomplished when i want to accomplish them.