Part of getting back into my own work and not focusing entirely on parenting is building good work habits and routines. Just when I would start to find my footing this summer there would be a camp-out, or family trip, or crazy week with open houses for five kids in three different schools... But every… Continue reading Habits
Category: Word of the Week
Focus
Ack! I totally missed posting this last week. All the more reason to keep "focus" in the forefront. I have been so distracted and thrown off this week. My husband ended up needing to go in for four nights over the weekend. He's usually an 8-4, M-F sort of guy, so my understanding of the… Continue reading Focus
Restarting Goals
Hello all! July 1st is the start of a new year with my company. I haven’t been able to devote much time and energy to this work lately, but day 1 seems like a perfect day to start fresh. I gotta be honest though, I am burnt out. I have been pushing through and pushing… Continue reading Restarting Goals
Word of the Week: Patience
So how is this autumn going for you so far? Ours has been....let's just say challenging. My boys elected to do asynchronous virtual learning through their school and the platform is not living up to expectations. Not for our family, our school system, or from what I can tell anyone else using this platform. We… Continue reading Word of the Week: Patience
Word of the Week: Rooted
I have struggled with choosing my word for the last week of my balanced September. The thesaurus has offered up words like assurance, calmness, justice, and equity. All very good words that deserve some time and meditation, but they drew me away from my original focus of physical and emotional balance. I considered also harmony… Continue reading Word of the Week: Rooted
Word of the Week: Stability
Sometimes I think stability gets a bad rap as being boring or an enemy of progress. But it is really hard to more forward and test the limits without stability in your life. You must be able to stand firmly on two feet before you can walk, and you must be able to walk without… Continue reading Word of the Week: Stability
Word of the Week: Align
Alignment, for me, is focused on my family first. Keeping kindness in the forefront, working as a team. Remembering that caring for myself is caring for my family. Remembering that mindlessly numbing myself with social media is not actually self care. When I have these things prioritized then no matter how chaotic our calendar is or how loud our house is, there is still peace.
Word of the Week: Flexibility
In my vestibular therapy, my PT stressed the same thing. Not to lock my knees, to stay flexible so that I could adjust more easily to changes. But I don't think staying flexible applies only to being physically balanced. That may be one of the top lessons of 2020.
Word of the Week: Persist
Persist is continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure. So maybe starting all over again on these habits isn't so much a failure as an opportunity to practice persistence. An opportunity to get back up, brush myself off, try again. An opportunity to be strong.
Word of the Week: Tenacity
The word for this week is tenacity, which is the ability or quality of having a firm grip on something, being very determined, or continuing to exist. I don't really feel like I've got a grip on anything right now, but I am determined that my work should continue to exist, even if it is being completed a little more slowly than I would prefer.
Joy On Pink Wings 