New Year - Let's get it started

Welcome 2014!  It's a new year and of course I have the I want to completely revamp me, my house, my fitness, my motherhood, what kind of wife I am attitude and realize whoa!  that is way too much and I will not be able to do it all.  But in my face on my Pinterest feed are all sorts of 30 day challenges that tie to the new year.  The 30 day Mom challenge, the 30 day plank challenge, the 30 day squat challenge, the 30 day marriage challenge, how to save money by putting a little away each week for the year, the 30 day fitness challenge, the 30 days to an organized house challenge…. you get my point.  Who doesn't love Pinterest but at the same time think that it's a little unrealistic.  Granted I get some wonderful ideas and inspiration from Pinterest but also I pin a lot of things I never even look at or read.  I think... oh I should do that / read that some time.  But let's be real.  My computer time is limited to minutes here or there and the likelihood of me actually following through with anything is well - slim.

Take this blog for example.  How many times have I posted how I really want to keep up with it?  Well how many times have I thought I should come on here and post how I don't keep up with it? You wouldn't know because I don't ever actually do it.  

My husband would say that's a classic me.  I have grand ideas that I am some superwoman that can do it all and accomplish anything that comes to my head but then my actual time ability and focus doesn't quite live up to that.  Although I feel I can attribute a lot of that to my 4 little distractions called children.  Oh wait make that 5 - children and husband.  Oh wait 6 - children, husband and house.  Oh wait 7 - children, husband, house and computer/phone.  Ok so maybe I have a little ADD - but honestly who doesn't.  There are so many distractions in this computer driven world.  

I'm sure you've seen on your Facebook feed that article "I'm getting a divorce in 2014"  The premise is that our iPhones are taking over our social lives and we ignore our real life relationships because of phones.  Now I would go farther and say this applies to not only phones but laptops, and tablets as well.  I know my husband and I sit at night with the tv on with our phone/tablet/computer in front of our face.  So not only are we not talking interacting with each but we also have two devices on at once leading to even further distraction and less interaction.  So I totally get the premise of the article.  The key though is moderation and balancing it.  It's easy to get sucked into Facebook, instagram, linked in, twitter, pinterest, blogs, etc. and before you know it - you're hooked.  just need to balance our unhooked time as well.  Thankfully my daughter manages that for me since she won't let me be in front of the computer at all while she is awake.  

So what's my point…. well I guess it's that I'm human and I need work like the rest of us.  We should always be trying to better ourselves.  But like everything else it's about balance and consistency.   Yes I want to try to improve things this year.  Those things include every aspect of my life but I need to remember to balance it and take it slow.  Don't they say it's 30 days for a new habit to form?  I guess that is why all the challenges are 30 days…(sidetrack!)  So maybe my 30 day challenge is to blog more and keep up with my improvements and see if I really can revamp some of my in 2014.