As a woman who wears a number of different hats — wife and mom, life coach and ministry leader, volunteer and voluntold (sound that one out), house cleaner and chauffeur, shopper and budget-not-keeper — I find that one of the most common questions I hear is how do I do it all, to which I let out a loud laugh!
I don’t do it all. Never have. Never will.
It’s simply impossible to look at my life — or anyone’s life — and expect to see the whole picture. For all that you might think I am able to accomplish, there is much left undone. For me, that looks like dust bunnies scurrying underfoot, a few counters that need a good cleaning, ten pounds that need to be lost off my waistline, and a dozen drawers that need to be reorganized. While that might not seem too much to complain about, it’s the short list. There’s more, much more. And it’s taken me a long time to get to the place of being okay with what I can’t tackle while embracing the opportunities before me without guilt.
It’s also taken just as much time to learn how to put up healthy boundaries on my “potential” in order to make time for “just being in the moment” — like sitting down to watch a movie for fun without multitasking, taking a spontaneous drive to a distant coffee shop, pushing off a self-imposed deadline in order to make time to give the bathroom a good scrub, or sitting still long enough to listen to my daughter’s heart be poured out over a cup of tea together.
I’ve been learning how to find balance — balance that I’m not only happy to live with but my family appreciates too — over a long enough period of time that I want to share with you what I’ve learned and how to apply it to your life.
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