17th June 2014
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly
enough time for the important things in her life. Brian Andreas.
Do you ever get up feeling overwhelmed by the week ahead, the week you
know you have in front of you? I could
easily feel like that today, instead I’m thinking 168 hours in a week and what
gets done gets done and what doesn’t well, it’ll wait. It’ll have to!
As a friend posted on Facebook yesterday, “And if there's not enough time for the unimportant stuff.....
Who cares? The world won't end”
Yesterday started rushed and busy, I
had lots of things I wanted to get done and work that needed doing but then I
realised it was Monday and Monday in my house is 'Momday' so I stopped, took
stock and realised it would all just have to wait! So instead I went to the garden centre because
I wanted some flowers to brighten our garden up as mom spends a lot of time
sitting out there, I bought her this little chap because I knew he would make
her smile massively and he did;
Unfortunately the day took a little
detour as I realised I’d lost my credit card, it turned out I’d left it in the
machine at Boundary Mills, how relieved was I they’d kept it! After collecting that it was back home to
spend the day with my mom, and my bestie came to visit too.
What a lovely afternoon, we sat in
the garden for an hour, then in the kitchen whilst I made lunch, Lynne and I
put the world to rights, we’ve both been so busy lately we haven’t been meeting
up every week, hopefully we’re getting back to being able to do that and
Monday is perfect because we have both recovered from a hectic work week by
then.
After Lynne had left I had an hour
in the garden with mom, she sat and watched whilst I planted a few flowers and
pruned a tree, and generally pottered.
The rest of the day was spent chilling with the most important lady in
my life.
Now I love my mom and there are 168
hours in a week, last week I worked a third of them, I probably slept a third
of them and with the other third I tried to spend time with mom and do all the
things that have to be done to keep a house running. What I didn’t do until yesterday was get much
time for me, I didn’t touch my college work, get to do any of my rocking chair
project nor read any of my book because I wasn’t relaxed enough. I often think I don’t really have a hobby but
that’s not true, I have lots of things that I like to do and when I work such
long hours, I find I’m too tired to do them, so I need to slow it down and get
that balance, I can’t work those hours every week. Now and again yes but not all the time, as
lack of time starts to affect other areas of my life, my eating habits being
one, after all there are only so many hours in a day and if I’ve spent an extra
one or two working then I can’t be cooking and quickness takes over! If I wasn’t prepared for that to happen I won’t
have the food in the house to cope with that situation and I’ll end up having
the wrong stuff.
Yes I managed a long walk on the
chase yesterday but it wasn’t very relaxing as I was actually working on my
phone as I walked – that’s not good! The
idea is to STOP the mind and enjoy the scenery.
This week’s been a reminder of a lot
of things, prioritising being one, I can’t help everyone as much as I’d like to
and I mustn’t feel guilty or incapable or whatever feeling comes out when I don’t. I should just realise there are only 168
hours in a week and some of them need to be mine!
Have a great day BeYOUtiful,
prioritise, remind yourself you’re just as important as everyone else on this
planet.
xx
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