Needing to Find Some Motivation

Do you ever just feel lazy and unmotivated? Man do I have a case of the lazies lately. It’s not that I can’t think of anything to do, it’s that I can’t bring myself to do anything. I’ve been crazy busy with the end of school for the kids so I think that has something to do with it – sometimes when I’ve got down time I just want to zone out in front of the TV or with a good book (speaking of good books, I read a great one recently: The Favored Daughter by Fawzi Koofi. This woman is amazing – she’s had an incredibly hard life in Afghanistan. Now she’s the speaker of parliament there and running for president in 2014. Reading this book certainly put my little problems into perspective).   (Disclosure: The book link above is an affiliate link and if you happen to make a purchase through it I’ll receive a small percentage  – at no cost to you!)

I’m trying to think of ways to jump start my creativity again. I’m going to put together summer journals for my kids that combine road trip journals with field journals, so I did a small watercolor map of our beach trip this summer. I scanned it and I’ll print one out for each journal and paste it in.

OK, the map is not quite to scale, obviously.

I did also manage to put together the flower arrangement at the top of this post, and isn’t it so happy-looking? It makes me smile just looking at it. Otherwise I’ve been puttering around the house but not doing anything much of consequence.

Do you have any advice to get unstuck and get busy?