Last time, we chose our five. The five areas to prioritize in our life. As a refresher, mine were: Faith Health Family Friends Home Those are pretty broad, but I'm going to spend some time breaking down each one of those during the refine process. Some took a little longer than others, and I didn't exactly go in the correct order. I noticed when I tried to put time and effort into one of the five, I had a huge feeling of being overwhelmed by another. For me, I listened to the one that was loudest first, the one that I knew I had to tackle to ease my mind. Health. My personal health. Not that my health was in shambles, but I wasn't putting it … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: repurposing
So here's where things started to shift for me. When I looked at how I spent my day, I wasn't exactly shocked. I did manage to check a ton of things off of a to-do list that was too-long for any hope of sanity. I half-way completed about a billion different things, I started organizing the bathroom, cleaned out the car (but Jud woke up before I could finish and vacuum), worked on a project I had volunteered for (while stopping to check my emails, yet never respond to a single email) throughout the process. I don't think I gave my focus to one single task throughout the course of the entire day. When I first started the time management exercise, I thought I would just revamp my … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: who stole my time?
I debated about whether or not I would post on weekends throughout this series, for the first few days, it just didn't work to post on the weekends. It would have put two extremely important posts on a Saturday and Sunday, and let's face it, we'd all rather relax. Today, we're back to the series and talking about time. Do you ever feel like you were busy all day long, but you don't really have anything to show at the end of the day? That is the scenario that kept replaying over and over, each night when I fell into bed, much later than acceptable. Exhausted from the day, but still no closer to tackling the laundry, still not caught up on housework, or projects. And … [Read more...]