Learn to Bargain With Yourself

Sometimes I come across times in my life where I do not feel like doing anything, or at least not the tasks I am supposed to be working on. This is when you need to become very good at bargaining with yourself. 

Yesterday I got home from a super quick trip to another state to visit family. It was so much fun and busy. I had a lot of laundry to do yesterday, not to mention a house to clean and kids to send back to school after our spring break. Yesterday was the perfect day to bargain with myself when all I wanted to do was take a nap and play games with my little girl. I did a lot of laundry, cleaning and still did the things I really wanted to do. 

After I got the older kids off to school and the washer going, I allowed myself 45 minutes to relax and snuggle with my youngest doing whatever she wanted to do. The bargaining was helpful when my daughter skipped off to do something "by herself" and I had so much to do. Already having a set time to get up and vacuum helped me push through the chores I did not want to do, but knew I would rather have them done than keep rolling them through the week. I played this game with myself all day and once even gave myself 30 minutes to lie down and take a nap, which was just the thing to get through the busy evening. I got all I needed to done and was able to push through a day where I didn't want to do anything. Today I am past those tasks and ready to focus on other things. 

When you have things you need to do, but you feel pushed up a wall about actually getting things done, try bargaining with yourself for a set amount of time or to drop or move some tasks around if you push through on the most important ones. Remember that you set the schedule in your life and when you push through unpleasant things early in the day or week, you give yourself so much to bargain for instead of leaving everything important until the very end.