Tired but inspired

I just realized I will always be tired. But there are two types of tired.

Things that are Good Tiring:
• Working in a garden
• Running up and down a hill with my kids
• Romancing my husband
• Hand-delivering home-made goodies
• Leaving my house with the boys
• Walks to the park
• Making an effort to look nice
• Cleaning house
• Visiting with family and friends
• Entertaining
• Fulfilling obligations
• Opening my blinds in the morning

Things that are Bad Tiring:
• Over-eating
• Over-sleeping
• Turning my husband down all the time
• Channel surfing
• Watching movies all day
• Hours on the computer
• Neglecting chores
• Avoiding friends and family
• Not leaving my house/fortress
• Going back to bed in the morning
• Staying in pajamas
• Dodging responsibilities

Basically, surrendering to my tiredness makes me tired.

I've decided to do away with things that make me Bad Tired. Bring on the Goodness!

"Any woman should be alive to opportunities-alive to public interests, to her family, to growth from church service. Life is so interesting, it worries me that I can't get it all done. And I have NO patience with women whose lives 'bore' them"
-Camilla E. Spencer

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
-Marjorie P. Hinckley