Tired, procrastinating mum - AIBU to ask for top 5 tips to improve life?

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Feel all my good intentions regularly go out the window in terms of exercise, energy, organisation etc... any tips. Children are 2 and 5. I am a sahm but still shattered!

1 get out of house early, school run?
2 then go to park
3 take 2 yr old for walk as long as possible rembering rain etc won't harm them or u that's ur exercise
4 when 2 yr old naps, take 1 hr for ur self
5 do cleaning etc rest of time

1. Get your iron checked.

(Iron in your blood that is, not your clothes smoothing implement).

1. Tidy as you go
2. Don't make it all about the kids. You matter too.
3. Can't think of any more, sorry

Get a baby sitter and go out and see friends sometimes. You matter as well.

Meditation. Seriously. I’m such a procrastinator. It helps me slow and organise my thoughts loads better so I end up being calmer and getting more done than panicking and getting less done.

Get stuff done as soon as it needs doing. Don’t look at it and think ‘I’ll do that later’ as you won’t and it’ll back up and you’ll end up with piles of stuff all over the place, half done. JUST DO IT NOW!
Also agree with the others who say take some time for yourself as much as you can. Once your youngest is in nursery/school things will get better - hang in there!

I wish I knew!
Things that help me are:

• get groceries delivered (& meal plan so I can prepare in advance and don't have to make any decisions on the hoof)
• have a set routine for cleaning, laundry etc so you can keep on top of it and it doesn't creep up on you
• have set evenings (at least two a week) where you go and do something for you, exercise/cinema - anything to give you some enforced downtime (& I don't count MN-ing )

I’m right there with you OP. A 4 year old and an 18 month old who dropped naps 3 months ago!

I have zero energy and have managed to do something to my tailbone so it’s quite sore and still at the moment.

I kind of have a very loose routine during the week but it’s going to go out the window when the summer holiday starts.

1. Go to bed earlier and get up earlier.
2. Get iron levels checked
3. Plenty of fresh air and walking
4. Get back to a past time you enjoy like reading.
5. Basket at bottom of stairs for things that need to go up.

don't think of yourself as being in the wrong first and foremost.dont go on burying yourself in whys or why cant I or im not doing thing right or enough.it wont ge tyou anywhere and adds extra weight to what you actually might need to do.
don't have lists and list of ideals.do what you can and like a puppy really praise yourself for what you do do.
write a list of what you have doen today.got dressed.got the kids ready.tamed a tamtrum.spoke about a funny happening with your kiddy,made them smile.got out of bed even.you are doing stuff every day by being a mum to two kiddies.and by even wanting to be motiviated.
try some meditation techniques.some breathin exercise.just so you can stop your head and stressers running away from you.
what can you do.practically and in yourself what seems doable.
try to do basic things like clear up as you go.or ifyou get five minutes just look around and think of things that you can do in a blitz even if it putting the recycling out.
put some music on.
get the kids to help.do a five or ten minute tidy blitz.
star chart for kids tidying up.so when they do some tidying away of there own stuff they get a star.at the end of the week 5 stars get them mcdonalds.or 5 items in the shopping basket.5 minutes extra of their favourite tv program.
cook wuth your young ones.make it fun.5 year old tom come play assistant.help stir.get thing out.choose the right tins etc.
go out for a walk.
play catch in the garden or park even.
read together.
start getting some enjoyment to things and doing things you love will give you more energy to do the bigger things.

Kate. Are you using a kindle? You have random full stops all over your post (and that happens to me when I use one) x

1. batch cook
2. cordless hoover

have a laundry basket.make it the norm for kids to put stuff in,dont make it a chore.
have a ironing session in front of a box set or even a kids movie.
draw together or set them up with some paints whilst you cook tea or make some batch cooks or do some tidying.
dance together to some really loud music.
start getting to bed five minutes earlier.
if your head is whirring at night don't stress into sleep.write al your worries down and leave them behind so you can go to sleep not worrying over things.
remember we never have enough time nor think we are doing well enough.so you are.you really are doing great

mammalamb yes and it infuriates me so much!im rubbish on it.it make me so much worse at spelling I just cant get used to it nor the full stopping.