Can you remember summer holidays at home when you were younger? When all you had to worry about was which day you’d be going to the local swimming pool and which day you’d be going to the beach? I do, all too clearly! Back when you could walk the streets with only bathers and a towel around you without being kidnapped, or worse. When all you had to worry about was who’s house you were going to afterwards for ice-cream.
Fast forward 20 years and what has happened. I look around and all I hear and see pouring out of our souls is ‘over-commitment’. Friends that are over-committed financially, physically and mentally and it is literally draining the life out of us all. We are everything to everyone and there is nothing left in the tank for ourselves. Those long-lost summers seem so far in the past, you think you can never get them back. Well I’m here to tell you, you CAN!
And all it takes is a simple NO! A no when your subconscious is trying to:
* pull you in the front door of your favourite clothing store, no room for more clothes!
* tempt you to that favourite bottle of bubbly that you haven’t had in so long, you don’t need it!
* buy more nail colour, how many shades of nail polish do you really need?
* make you walk out the door of a morning without packing your lunch, your lunch at the office could be a day tour in another country.
* do unnecessary daily trips to the supermarket when you can get it weekly, no unnecessary buys.
* ‘make you’ participate in online shopping during the night when you should be sleeping (that’s right, there is NO link here for online shopping – I tricked you, see how tempting it was!)
Is all the overindulgence really making us happy or do we need to get back to the beach?
I’ve been walking around my house this afternoon (as us Mumma’s do) picking up my 5yr olds birthday and Xmas presents from last year that haven’t even been played with and some boxes not even open. I know I certainly can’t fit anymore clothes or food in my cupboards and really isn’t that all we need? I started saying NO to all these temptations this year and now thanks to this I am going to be reliving my childhood beachside & poolside summer in Java & Bali for a whole month.
We are busy looking after everyone and everything around us and making things more complicated than they need to be. Stop overthinking it. I’m here to un-complicate things for you and help you get back to your childhood summer dreams NOW! Please email me or send a message and I can help you get started with your planning. Things are easier when us Mumma’s work together x
Written by Ange Bowerman
Photo credits Adobe Stock (my Indonesian Summer – Java & Bali 2020 pics coming soon)
