Overcoming What’s Holding You Back
It’s been a nice and busy couple of weeks. The day after Thanksgiving my son and his family came for the day on Friday. It snowed a bit on Saturday and was cold for a few days while being extremely cold at night. Then I got tickets to the Paw Patrol show in Topeka on December 8 and saw the kids again.
The Stall Cleaning Lesson: Procrastination in the Cold
I hadn’t mucked out on Thanksgiving because we went into Kansas City and there didn’t seem to be time. Friday there wasn’t time at all and Friday morning I was worried about one of my mares who wasn’t acting normal. She’s fine now. Then Saturday I was totally soaked because I fed horses in the snow, and I didn’t feel the need to go out more than necessary. Then it was absolutely frozen.
When I did finally go out last Friday after the temperatures had been above freezing during the days for a few days the poop was still frozen to the ground. I had to get a shovel to pry it up. This could have been so much easier if I had braved the cold and picked the stalls each day.
This is nothing new in my life. I remember early in our marriage when I would decline an invitation to go to a horse show at the end of the year because I needed to stay home and do bookwork.
This got even worse when I was caregiving for Mike. It seemed like the books took a backseat to everything else. Of course, they did to the traveling we did for his health care. At first, I had a full-time job then I was in the Equine Gestalt program and at the end I was in treatment for breast cancer. Bookwork didn’t seem all that important.
After he died, I got some of it caught up. I was struggling though. It always seemed like I should be working on possible income-producing activities not inputting data. And I had trouble remaining motivated.
Letting Go: Accepting Help to Move Forward
I finally got someone to help me. It was hard giving up control though. She understood how I wanted it done and did a great job. Now it’s almost complete.
For years I’ve felt like this has been holding me back. Working on it brought back a lot of memories around Mike and I believe that’s one of the reasons it has been so hard for me to complete it. I would have to leave all that behind me.
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