My word for 2013 is strength. I shared with you early this month that I need to work on my diet, exercise, staying in contact with friends and work on my spiritual life. While working on each of these areas will help me work on my word of the year, they will also help me keep a clear head while balancing a hectic schedule.
I had been thinking things would get a little more hectic this summer, but things have really picked up already. I bet we all have such a hectic schedules.
How?
JDaniel has swimming lessons and will hopefully be adding speech soon. He is also interested in joining the children’s choir.
I am teaching Sunday school.
My husband and I are taking a parenting class called Love and Logic which it turns out has homework. I am in a moms group at church that has homework and book reading assignments.
There are blog commitments I have to several blogs including this one.
The house needs a totally purging of closets and it needs more of a mid-winter cleaning than a spring one. I don’t think it can wait until spring.
I wanted to be better about exercise and eating healthy meals with JDaniel instead of getting things done while he eats lunch and breakfast.
What am I doing to keep a clear head?
I found a daily blogging checklist online that I modified and I am trying to follow. It helps me stay focused on what I need to do online and keeps me from going on internet rabbit trails.
Getting up earlier to have my prayer time before JDaniel gets up.
Blogging more at night. I am usually ready to head to the television as soon as JDaniel goes to bed. I am trying to schedule social media in advance instead of the day of. I have been easily able to do that. I have been able to write when JDaniel the two days I don’t have mom’s group at church or in the afternoon when he has quiet time.
I have set up a cleaning and blog post calendar. Knowing what I need to do on a specific day has been such a help.
Exercise has been scheduled too. It turns out that if I have a time set up for it I tend do it.
I am heading to JDaniel’s preschool as few minutes earlier than I need to and bringing the books I need to read with me in the car. I can read for a few minutes before I go in to get him. It is has amazing how many pages I can read when all I have in the car with me to do is a book.
You would not believe how much having a schedule, getting up a little earlier, and using the time I have when JDaniel is asleep or at school to get things done has helped me not to feel oodles of things to do from clouding my head. Keeping my head a little tidier with a routine that is working has helped me feel more balance.
It has opened up more time to spend with my guys and given me more time to touch base with friends. The free flowing life that felt such pressure when deadlines or appointments loomed in front of it wasn’t working. Having a schedule that I can modify if I need to has really me clear my head with a hectic schedule. It is helping me to feel just a little stronger.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Mucinex. The opinions and text are all mine.
