It is VERY important to GAL when doing the LRT. I have found that GAL has vastly improved my mental health and it has stirred curiousity with my WAW. Don't forget about your kids, though. Try to balance the GAL with spending time with your kids, OR incorporate your kids in at least some of the your GAL activities.
I understand this, really I do. Almost ALL of my GAL activities involve my kids right now. Going for walks with D8, bike rides with S6, taking both of them on day trips on a weekend day, going out to dinner with D8 alone, taking them to, and picking them up from school at least once per week, spending quality time with S6 who has some minor special needs...
However where we live, other than going to Gym, going for walks on my own, and going out a night a week with a the few guys I have made friends with, I am finding it hard to enjoy all the things I really want to do. This is a totally different culture. Examples are I like to work on cars, modify, spend time in the garage, do house projects, etc. The house here is not ours, nothing I need to do here, and my car is a rental, and we live in the city and have no garage. These are not excuses, I am simply having a hard time finding what I want to do with myself when it is my time. I usually watch a movie on the TV, or surf the internet. Not exactly being mysterious or really GAL. At home, I would have tons of projects I could enjoy, start on my own, engage the kids with too, and many friends and family to hang with and so on...
On that subject, I would like further opinions on my two questions above, plus one more new question: - How do I be mysterious? I work, come home, have dinner with family, kids go to bed, I have an hour or two to myself, then it starts all over. I am predictable for sure, but that is my life right now. I have very little freedom. On the weekends I like to spend with the kids. I have no new hobbies here I want to take up. So I am really open to suggestions along the lines of GAL and being mysterious.
