Hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. Today we're going to talk about feeling

like a failure or feeling like we're not measuring up to other people in our life or to the expectations

we put on ourselves and how to overcome that. So thank you guys so much for tuning in I appreciate it. It's been a while since I've uploaded

life life is busy and crazy and I'm making excuses but I'm back now having lived most of the summer in hotels,

working, working outside the home for my first time in probably 15 years, working outside of the the home away from my family.

It was major suckage, but I'm back now and just trying to get back into the routine of things

after months of being out of it.

And I'm feeling overwhelmed.

I'm feeling just bummed about the mundane

boringness of adult life.

And I feel like I'm not really accomplishing as much as I should or could be and I know that this is a universal thing I know that we all feel this way because anytime I reach out to friends and family and sort of

complain I guess about my lack of motivation or the lack of just structure in my life right now. I feel out of control in my life. They all

totally feel the same way and they're shocked that I feel that way. And I think because I'm podcast and because I make videos or I've

written books on basically how to get your life together people assume I have my

life together but what I've really realized is that no one does. We're all just trying to do the best that we can.

And I've spent the last probably five years of my life just really trying to push the needle forward.

It's been so important to me to have a legacy maybe, I don't even know what you'd call it,

just make a difference, have an impact, do something bigger than myself,

and being a mom and a wife is so amazing, but I wanted more. I didn't know how to get it. I just knew that I wanted more and I had a really deep desire to help people

overcome the same challenges that I've overcome.

And the only challenge I've overcome is a cluttered house so I figured I just maybe start there. I'm still filled with a million other challenges.

But coming back to just the feeling of the overwhelm, so here I am back in my home after months away, doing the daily routine of just kids and getting them ready for the day and housework and laundry and

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