Planning to succeed
I am proud of myself. Yesterday we did get out of school early but the roads weren’t too bad, yet, so I decided to go home and workout. I upped my weights and used the 12 lb. weights for every exercise in the FIRM DVD. Usually I drop to 10 lb. weights when I have to double up but I figured if I wanted to buy 15 pound weights I had better make sure I can do the whole workout with 12. It was tough, but I did it.
Today we have a 2 hour delay, it was announced last night. I will be so ready for spring when it gets here, it seems like we have a major storm every week. Anyway, since it was known that we had a late arrival today I told my hubby that I wanted to get up at the regular time anyway and workout. Usually on Wednesdays I can’t workout because my son has physical therapy right after school. But since we’re going in 2 hours late I can take an hour to workout and still have enough time to get to school early and get some work done. I felt a tiny bit guilty about this (don’t I always) because neither of us have been sleeping well lately because our son has been getting up at 1:30 or 2:00 and staying up for the day. But my hubby went to bed at 8:00 last night so sleeping until 5:15 is still pretty good. It’s now 5:00 and my son slept until 4:30 so I feel like a new woman.
I also told my SIL that if school is cancelled today and if the roads in town are good I still plan to bring the kids down. She said “no problem” and truly sounded like she was ok with it. I just figured this way there would be no reason for me to not be able to have a few hours to myself and to get some work done.
I’m surprising myself with my assertiveness, both in telling my hubby that I plan to workout in the morning and telling my SIL that I’m going to expect her to work even if we don’t have school. And what I have noticed is that as long as I tell people what I want to happen instead of asking them if it’s ok they don’t second guess me. I don’t know why I haven’t figured this out before now. At school I am very assertive and the kids know when I tell them to do something that it isn’t a suggestion, I expect it to happen. Same thing with my kids, they can just tell with my tone of voice. But for some reason I didn’t think to try this approach with adults. So this will be my goal for now, being more assertive in my dealings with other adults. Wish me luck.