What To Do Instead When Frustrated

I want to share one of my frustrations with you.

I hate doing dishes.

It's true.

Every morning and night, the dishes pile up in the sink.

I think about using paper plates.

I really had a conversation with my wife about hiring someone to do the dishes for us.

I tried to con my kids into doing the dishes.

But after the excitement of the first day wore off, I was back at it, doing the dishes.

And I wanted the entire world to know, not the entire world, but most everyone to know in my pathway that I hate doing dishes.

That's what I initially thought.

But as I started to gain clarity as the real reason I hated doing dishes, it wasn't the task of doing dishes at all that I hated.

It was giving up the time to do that.

You see, I was struggling in my life to find the time for something that I wanted to do.

Something that was going to make me better.

Reading.

I couldn't get a hold of the consistent time for reading.

And I was consistently taking out my frustration on everyone around us and the dishes.

So that's when I gained a gigantic aha moment.

You guys know what an aha moment is? Just a real good realization that immediately after I'm done doing the dishes, I take our dog, Luna, for a walk.

I decided I was going to buy and purchase my first ever audio book.

And I started to listen to audio books while walking Luna.

It worked out really, really great.

And it still continues to work out great.

Luna's much happier.

She gets a longer walk and I'm much happier because I get to listen to my books, which is also helped propel me to listen to books while I'm driving in my car, instead of making calls or instead of listening to music.