When I am sitting at my desk writing about the challenges of being a CarePartner, I can often work my way to solutions for difficult situations. I have my friend google to help me with options and can really dig deep to figure out what needs to be done. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always work in the real world because ‘knowing’ is a passive state, ‘doing’ takes motivation to act and is often much harder.

A great example is when someone tells me how much they enjoy reading my blog and how they are doing something I suggested. I think about the time a friend told me she moved her husband’s Aware in Care kit into her car so they are ready in case of an emergency trip to the hospital. I had suggested this in a blog after realizing that my husband’s kit sits on a bookshelf in our house and has never been used. Would you like to guess where our kit still is?

It is easy to dissect a problem when we are not in the middle of it. It is possible to devise a plan that could alleviate issues when I have the time and am in a quiet place. What too often happens, however, is that once I finish writing and step back into the busy-ness of my life, I forget all about that great solution I just created. I get caught up in the moment and never quite get beyond that. I may be able to come up with the good ideas in my words, now I need to make sure that my actions follow through and back them up.