Stuck in a rut…HELP!

Hi Scremin,

check out ‘Forum Frolic’ – just posted something there – hope it helps.

Kind Regards,
George.

“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”

Hi screamin,
I recommend Anthony Robbins material for any kind of motivational use. It is not a quick fix but it has invaluable advice that will facilitate u finding a solution.

Regards,
Si

Steph

There are plenty of sports that don’t cost too much money to play. Your town is big enough to have plenty of sporting clubs and you are bound to find one both you and your husband enjoy:

Running, bowls (don’t knock it until you’ve tried it), soccer, netball, basketball, volleyball etc etc. The only money is usually registration each year and maybe a uniform (for some sports).

Sport does not have to cost much money and I know how much it can do to lift up one’s self esteem. I have been playing sport reguarly pretty much all my life and I use it for many things.

1. Socialising
2. Competitiveness
3. Fun
4. To vent anger or another emotion.
5. To get fit (the fitter you are, the better you feel, sleep, relate to people etc)

Do yourselves a favour and join some sort of club. WA has such great weather, take advantage of it.

Here’s another idea, why not give each other a present of a personal trainer for an hour. He/she will get you started and make exercising feel more fun. That will get you more motivated. Get the endorphins running around your body and I bet you will feel great.

I have been really fit now for a couple of years and I sometimes I find it hard to motivate myself to swim laps or go for a run, but then I remind myself how much work I have put in to get where I am today, that helps.

‘Eat rich food, barbeque a yuppie’ [greedy]

Hi Scremin,

We can understand what you are saying…[strum]

We also were in a rut until recently, as being self employed, and trying to get really focused in property, as well as keeping our 2 girls entertained was very difficult.

For entertainment on weekends we dragged them from town to town searching for positive cashflow deals. Not much fun for them.[weird]

We hadn’t had a real holiday in MANY years, and so we finally bit the bullet and went to Fiji for 10 days, basically to repay the kids for the last few months of neglect!

You have no idea how a holiday can refocus and remotivate you. [specool]

If your budget can’t afford much, then there are lots of things that you can do like bushwalking, bikeriding…etc..that get you into the outdoors, and get your brain active.

Don’t let routine ruin your life.[upsidedown][upsidedown]

ENJOY – remember your family comes first!!

Good luck,

Del

I’m off to NZ again, to search for more GREAT +ve cashflow deals.
If you’re interested in hearing about any quality deals then PM me for details!! This is a genuine offer.

Hey Steph,

…well, why don’t you look at opening one up for the locals – it will create a good business for you while socializing with all the locals and talk to them about your business (property investing) aswell – you and Cremin can manage it – I think this is a brilliant idea for a business and it will be very successful over time…

Kind Regards,
George.

“If You never never ask, you’ll never never know”

Hi Scremin,
I hope this applies to your situation and my apologies if it doesn’t. I was in a rut. Hated work but pay was good when applying for a loan. My boss is Stalin. Again, sanity vs good income to buy more property. I dont know why but I was ful of anger and for some reason I purchased a cheap bench press and free weights. Cost $400. Slowly added more weights, equipment as I started to work out and found I had a vehicle to release my anger at my boss and work politics. After 4 years, all up cost probably $1000. I live in a tiny bungalow. In it, it is my office, gymnasium, a place to crash when I’m not at work (I mainly work at night looking after people with disabilities). The end product from hating my boss and job politics and taking it out by working out resulted in an interest in body building. I then found a discipline in something I enjoyed. I now apply this to investing. The more you put into it, the more you will get out from it. It got to the point where I reached 200kg and 5% body fat. I considered competing in amateur competition. To do this my life revolved around work, sleep, working out and the cycle would continue. The thing that maintained all this was just self discipline as a side effect from hating my job and boss and finding a constructive way (win-win??) to benifit from my negative situation (no effort required). If you have a partner then you have one up on me as you can use each other for motivation and support. I wonder how far I could have gone if I had a training partner to spot for me to get that extra rep out to go to failure. I haven’t worked out now for 6 months as I use the time I spent working out now devoted to property. The weights are still here though and considering the final outlay would equal just one year’s membership means they will be there when I’m financially free to go back harder and heavier than ever. I’ve just transferred one discipline (body building for property building) for another. Just one way from turning a negative in one’s life into a positive. Prior to the work situation I had absolutely no interest in body building or property investing. They both are a good example of how you can find a beneficial solution to a negative situation. I hope you may be able to draw some help from my experience as I have from others.
Regards,
Gatsby.