I am NOT a morning person! I have never been a morning person. Lately, I haven't even been a night person! I like my sleep.
I was thinking yesterday morning before I had to be at my 7:30 AM job, that I don't want a 7:30 AM job. And a 7:30 AM job isn't even that bad, but that's not what I want to do. I hate waking up early enough to have my coffee and shower and make it to work by 7:30. There are some crazy people I know that VOLUNTARILY wake up at 4:30 in the morning! Like on purpose! (You know who you are crazy people.) Anyway, I hate mornings! I hate being awake before 7:30 in the morning. Yes, I have more time in my day to do stuff if I wake up earlier but if I'm up early, that usually means I have roughly 30 minutes to an hour of "me time" before I have to START getting ready.
Usually in this "me time" after I wake up, I go to the bathroom (yes, I just said bathroom on my motivational blog and it probably won't be the last time. Do you feel motivated yet?) I start the coffee, I feed and water the cat, I wait for the coffee to be done, then I make a cup of coffee. I grab my fresh cup of coffee, my devotional, and a blanket and sit on the couch. This is usually the time when the cat feels his cuddliest so he will stick his face in my face as if to say "pay attention to be human! Love me!" This goes on for about 2 minutes until he remembers that I am the enemy and I must be destroyed. (If you remember, I was the one that just fed him and he still proceeds to hate me.) Eventually, I get him to calm down and lay down on my lap while I read my devotion for the day. So far, about 15 minutes have passed (maybe 20). Depending on if I showered the night before, I could have anywhere between 10 and 25 minutes left of my "me time". So, what do I do? What's that? Something productive? Of course not! See, I'm not awake enough yet to try to be productive. Instead, I grab my phone and stare at the mind-numbing social media that I have. It usually starts with Facebook, then Instagram, then YouTube, then Pinterest. It's honestly becoming routine which is becoming boring.
So, Why am I telling you my mundane morning routine? Well, remember what I was thinking yesterday? I don't want to go to a 7:30 AM job. Yes, this job helps me pay bills (sometimes) but I still hate going to it. You see, what I really want to do with my life is work from home creating things: this blog, YouTube videos, Etsy designs, photography, etc. I went to school to be a photographer and have had like two paying shoots since. Lately, I have been listening to audiobooks. Well, I listened to one and I'm halfway through another. The first one was Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-to Guide by Georiga Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff, the hosts of the comedy podcast My Favorite Murder. This was a great book! In it, they talk about their pasts dealing with depression, eating disorders, and addictions showing people everywhere that they can have a crappy past and have done some stupid things and still become successful! They embrace and advocate for self-care and therapy and believe both are extremely important to everyone's mental health. Plus, the audiobook form is read by the authors so it's interesting to hear their stories read by them. The other book is Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. In her book, Rachel shares her past experiences to show the people can suffer from the lowest of lows and still become successful, while also promoting self-care! (hmm, there might be a trend to the books I'm reading...) Rachel Hollis says, in one of her chapters, if you don't try the thing that you want to do, then how do you know you can't do it? Let that sink in for a minute. You have no idea if that crazy first step will fail or succeed if you don't take it! There was a poster in my middle school library that said "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take". How true is that?
Both of these books (and advice from my older sister, Hi Sis!) have opened my eyes to realize that I can do a boring job that I hate for the rest of my life or I can try something crazy and see if it works! Who wants to do a job they hate and don't get joy out of? I sure as heck don't! Whether you want to start your own business, start a blog, a YouTube channel, whatever you want to do that you think is too crazy or extreme to work, do it! Give that crazy idea a shot! Pray about it! Ask God for guidance through the idea.
About a year ago, my sister quit her job as a service manager at a car dealership in order to start her own business. She is still working on this business and has been getting a lot of business from it! Was that a huge and scary thing for her to do? Yes, but she did it and she believed it would succeed! Would she have gotten all this business had she not taken that first step? NO! She would still be at a job that she didn't like and coming home every day and complaining about it. Having a job you hate greatly affects your mood usually causing those around you to share in your bad mood.
I love this Shia LaBeouf motivational video. It is silly and goofy but also motivates me a little more every time I watch it or see a GIF from it. JUST DO IT! Do that thing that will make you happy! You will never know if this thing will work out if you don't try to make it happen! You can continue living how you are now, wishing and hoping for that thing to happen OR you can make that thing happen! And, if you whole-heartedly try it and it fails, that is okay. Try it again. Or maybe it wasn't for you, or maybe God has something else in mind for you. Whatever the case may be, it is better to try and fail than to never try at all.
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