I'm a scatterbrain. I see endless things that are good, great, beneficial, worthwhile, and then I become so overwhelmed by them all and where to start and I can't possibly achieve all of this so why do any of it, that I throw my hands up and channel surf YouTube Land for wedding proposals (though loved the way my husband proposed), pregnancy announcements (no, I'm not pregnant... currently... ), soldier returning home (they make me cry, what can I say?), and home-birth videos (again, not pregnant, just obsessed!). Which is of course the opposite of productivity. So I got to thinking: if I could identify some of the things that are actually GOOD for me, and focus on doing those things, maybe that could help! People like to use the common cliche "do what feels good" to excuse their unhealthy, ungodly behavior. I do not want to continue in my unhealthy, ungodly ways. I want to Do What Is Good For Me! But sometimes I need some focus. Something simple. What follows began as a list, which evolved into clusters, which further evolved into a poem. I plan to print it and hang it where I can read it each day. Please enjoy, and this week, Do What is Good For You! (I would've provided you with an image, but I'm having some difficulties converting it.)
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My kids take FOR-E-VER to get ready in the morning. Their "morning stuff" consists of the following tasks, which must be completed before they can have breakfast:
And since I took most of their clothes and toys out of their room in another spontaneous idea I had, it's not all that much to get it clean in there. So I told them one morning... "Kids. If you can get all your morning stuff done in 10 minutes or less, you can have WHATEVER you want for breakfast that we have in the house, that you can make for yourself. The only restriction is no pile of candy, but you can have candy with whatever you choose to have for breakfast." It took them about 20 minutes, but since they gave it great effort and their room looked FANTASTIC, I rewarded them with the 'whatever-they-want' breakfast, but I warned them that the next day I would be sticking to the 10-minute time-limit. We're going on about a week, and since then they have had whatever they wanted for breakfast every day. We finally ran out of ice cream on day 4 or 5, so my oldest has taken to making herself and the two middle'ns our normal honey-yogurt, to which she adds fresh cherries and Ovaltine with Ghiradelli shavings. She has gotten her morning stuff routine down to 3-4 minutes. My 5 yo takes about 6-8 minutes. Their room looks great, and I don't have to ask them if they've done their morning-stuff 20 times! I let my 3yo join in the "whatever-you-want" breakfast as I haven't yet trained him how to do his morning-stuff... we're working on it! Now that we have gone from 45 minutes to get morning-stuff done down to less than 10, it's time to find a plan to effectively tackle "night-time stuff"! |
Routines
Daily routines are ever changing and never really successful long-term... yet! I'm hoping to figure it out soon! See my progress! ArchivesCategories |