"If something is important to you, you'll find a way, if it isn't you'll find an excuse." ~ seen on Pinterest My motto for going into this year was "No excuses". I've found that in my own life I can find a plethora of reasons for putting off and excusing away the important. For the past few years because of one reason or another I've been forced to be in "survival mode" instead of achieving mode. And during certain stages of life this is completely OK. It's hard enough to just go day to day when you're in the middle of a cross country move, a deployment, a difficult pregnancy or with a sleepless newborn. But then one day you'll look around and realize that you're no longer in that survival stage. Hubby is home, you're faced with a year when you will not be moving, having a baby, facing a deployment, and you're actually able to function well because you're getting 8 hours of sleep each night. This is when you need to sit and ask yourself why you're still making excuses--why are … [Read more...]
Faith and Business 101: Balancing Time
So if you're following along with my journey to find balance you'll know that so far we've done a couple of things. These are: Writing down our priorities and deciding how they translate into life Using the Proverbs 31 woman as inspiration Getting a Game Plan together Ditching Perfection Now you're about four weeks into your plan and it's time to start figuring out what's working and what is not. For example I planned on working for 45 minutes in the morning before the kids got up--till I realized that the 15 minutes I was giving myself to make the bed, get dressed, do my makeup, get my coffee, and get settled in was way too little time--especially since I move with the speed of a slug until I drink my coffee each morning. Originally my plan was to get up at 8 a.m. and after realizing this was much too late I've been slowly bumping it back earlier (again--not a morning person here. My ideal life involves staying up till 1 a.m. and sleeping till 9 a.m. --not feasible in the real … [Read more...]
Faith and Business 101: Getting a Game Plan
In the past weeks in both this and my Sippy Cups to Separation column I have been talking about finding balance in life. This week I want to talk about practical ways to actually achieve this. Having a goal is always a good idea, but just simply stating the goal "I want to have balance between all areas in my life" will get you no where. If you're anything like me you'll just end up back in front of your computer for hours on end, because you know that you have all sorts of work/play/etc on there that needs to be done--and you're so overwhelmed with everything else that you're not really sure where to even start. I mentioned that you should write down your priority list and how this should translate into your life. That is a great place to start. Once you have that in place you need to break it down further by deciding how that will look on a day to day basis in your life. This year I decided that I have so many things on my plate that I needed to schedule out each waking moment of … [Read more...]
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