eternity

Challenge yourself challenge

Hello everyone.

Rosemary from Inspirations has set a challenge on magic smoke (link in my sidebar) and I am going to try to keep up with this one!! LOL

This is quite a challenge and delves deep into me.

Rosemary has been talking about our gremlins, the little voice inside your head that tells you a lot of negative things. My gremlin is a big ugly whatsit and has been with me for a long time. Over the years I have got good at ignoring him but I guess that ignoring him is not doing me any good as I am not dealing with the issues. So here goes……

Rosemary asked us to draw our gremlins…..

Ugly whatsit!!LOL

The challenge is to take five things your gremlin says to you and re-write them with what you would say to him.

Here it is…

1. GREMLIN: Your not doing enough/you don’t work hard enough/why didn’t you get more done/your too slow/your doing all the wrong things/

ME : I am doing what I can/there are only 24 hours in the day and I need sleep/ I have high expectations of myself/ not slow just attention to detail/ I need down time/

2. GREMLIN : your selfish/you don’t pay enough attention to everyone else’s needs/your not doing enough to help everyone with their problems/ your doing too much for them/ you do more for them than others/

ME : I have to think of myself sometimes/I can’t spread myself that thin/ I’m trying to help everyone/ I am trying to keep the peace/ I can’t do it all I have limits/ there are limits to my capabilities/my loyalties are stretched/

3. GREMLIN : your not organised/you don’t do things logically/your time management sucks/why haven’t you followed your own plans/why haven’t you sorted this out/ why bother, you can’t do it/

ME : I am more organised than some/ it’s my logical not yours/I do things in priority order/there is too much to do and not enough time/I’m too busy to finish and follow plans/ it takes time/they are not the right plans for me/ I can do it I just need the right plan/

4. GREMLIN : you’re shouting too much/your shouting at the wrong person/it’s not their fault/your nasty/you’re a dragon/your bad tempered/your blaming the wrong person - it’s your fault/

ME : sorry I can’t argue with this one, I agree.

5. GREMLIN : your not a good mum/your useless/you’re a failure/they have the control/they are winning - you’re a looser/ you can’t cope/your not doing it right/ you failed you are not the perfect mother/

ME: I love my boys/ I am doing the best I can/I am learning/I do have control/I can cope I just need to be more organized/I can….. Nope struggling here as well.

6. GREMLIN : the business will fail/ you will fail/it’s a stupid idea/there’s too much competition/ what makes you think you can do this/you’ve failed for the last 8yrs what makes you think you can do it now/ carries on for hours…..

ME : I can do this/ it is a good idea/ I have done the research/I know the business well/ I have to succeed I can’t afford to fail/ I’ve learnt my lessons/I have to do this - I want to be financially independent/ this is my dream/ last chance I have to succeed/ I can….

There you go ended up with 6 and it was hard to stick to that!!

We will have to wait and see what this Thursday’s challenge is and see how we deal with them!

Take care

                                                                                   Mrs t xx