Weekly Intention: This is a bit of an odd week. Tuesday promises to be very stressful with several important meetings and multiple context changes and Wednesday looks mild at the moment but I suspect it will fill up and it certainly goes all the way into the night. And then the latter end of the week is quieter but will require two trips to David’s school. Both, possibly in the rain. One during rush hour on Friday. Not my favorite time to be on the road. I feel that if I make it past Tuesday, it will get easier. My intention this week is to be mindful, intentional and slow. Listen more than I talk. Be organized, intentional and methodical. I would like to be efficient in the work I get done and then rest as much as possible.
This month’s intention is: Rise and Shine. Hit the ground running.
Ways to Shine this week:
- One: Bold: Tuesday is going to be all about being bold, baby!
- Two: Open: I get to celebrate David this week. All of his accomplishments at school. I can’t wait.
- Three: Heal/Nourish: I’d like to spend some time with self-care this week. Maybe a nice, warm bath is in order. Certainly, so is journaling.
I am looking forward to: David’s culmination.
This week’s challenges: a tough Tuesday. an interview on Thursday. all my nights this week are full. So i will have to work extra hard to rest.
Top Goals:
- Work: actually start creating weekly summaries, see if I can pull it together. i have an idea but we will see if it comes together.
- Personal: do art. i feel disappointed in myself that i’ve made no February art already.
- Family: helping Jake, getting back into routine for Nathaniel and helping David is all I want this week.
I will focus on my core desires (bold, mindful, nourish, love) by: slowing down this week. this will be hard with how full the week is but i will try to stay grounded in this moment. just take things one meeting at a time. i will remember not to put the urgent before the important. i will try.
This week, I will say yes to: some time with friends. i haven’t seen friends in a while.
This week, I will say no to: aiming for perfection. these status emails will be work in progress. one week at a time.
I am worried that: i will not get enough done this week. i am worried the emails will be terrible, not useful. i am worried that i will not be able to maintain this work of staying on top of all of the tracking craziness. i am worried that i will mess up the interview i am going to conduct. i am worried that it will rain. i am worried that i will be tired and mess things up. i am worried that i will never feel more energy even though i am trying to eat better.
This week, I want to remember: i am loved and worthy. my worth doesn’t come from my job, my ability to mother my kids or be a wife. I just am and it’s ok that i mess up. what matters is that i get up and i keep trying. i will always keep trying.
Here’s to a great week!
Weekly Intention: As we go into the first full week of 2017, I expect this week to be hectic and busy. My Mondays are always the toughest because my meetings start at 9am and don’t end until 10pm. So by the end of the day, I’m already wiped enough for multiple days. Wednesdays are like that, too, but then my Thursdays and Fridays tend to be quieter so Wednesday feels more hopeful. This Monday comes with the extra challenge of a dentist’s appointment and also Nathaniel will be home since he has a fever of 100.6 at the moment. So we’ll see how juggling all this works. I have a few more work items that I feel compelled to get done this week. Most noticeably my unread email is still at multiple hundreds so my intention with that this week is to either read it all or declare email bankruptcy and move on. I don’t want all the email hanging on my conscience all week. I learned last week that when I am rushing or harried, I tend to make a lot more mistakes and I tend to be much unkinder to my loved ones. So my intention this week is to slow down all the moments in between. If I am packing lunches during a meeting, so be it, but I don’t have to rush. Everything can wait, even when it doesn’t seem so. Let’s see if I can remember that.
This month’s intention is: Rise and Shine. Hit the ground running.
Ways to Shine this week:
- One: Bold: Skipping some meetings so I can go to Book Club this week.
- Two: Open: Setting up a few personal meetings for mentoring/coaching at work.
- Three: Heal/Nourish: Continuing to choose to nourish myself. Oh and, going to the dentist 🙂 And getting my hair done!
I am looking forward to: a long weekend this weekend. i love long weekends.
This week’s challenges: a lot of meetings this week. i am hoping nathaniel won’t get sicker. and the email, oh the email.
Top Goals:
- Work: start creating weekly summaries, see if I can pull it together.
- Personal: stay on the wagon with my new routine. make a list of personal goals and projects.
- Family: create some routine for Nathaniel and math. (i haven’t done this yet so let’s give it one more week.)
I will focus on my core desires (bold, mindful, nourish, love) by: trying to stay in this present moment. slowing down and picking only the most important things to work on. Listening and responding and not jumping in. Staying calm. I’ll try to focus extra hard on the equanimity this week. Let’s see where I get.
This week, I will say yes to: getting the most important work done (and identifying what that is!)
This week, I will say no to: doing all the urgent-seeming-but-unnecessary work. (not just at work but also at home.)
I am worried that: i will not make time for my kids and for myself. i feel like once the week starts it’s a marathon of just going through all the motions. drop off to school, exercise/journal, meetings, meetings, meetings, pick up from school, make lunches, make dinner, meetings, meetings, meetings, sleep. That’s pretty much my life. Even if it’s in 20-minute pockets, I want to make time there for myself (and I am now doing this a bit with the journaling) and for Nathaniel and for David. Not time to say “do your homework, practice your instrument, brush your teeth” but time to connect. Time to show them my love. Time to really listen.
This week, I want to remember: that this is my life. I can choose how it goes. i can choose what upsets me. i can choose what I will worry about. I can choose how I show up in the world. Every day. Every moment. And each time, I get to start from scratch and try again.
Here’s to a great week!
Weekly Intention: This is an atypical week for me. I will still be on vacation on Monday and Tuesday, so first day back at work is Wednesday and the same goes for the kids. Which means that the first half of this week, I want to focus on resting and reading and taking the last bits of time for myself. And then I would like to spend the second half of the week getting back into the groove of things. Catching up on my immense amount of email, getting into an exercise and food routine, doing the assignment I had for the volunteer work at David’s school, etc. I don’t expect to do a ton this week but just feeling caught up, making some intentional plans and slowly integrating back into life would be a good place to start.
This month’s intention is: Rise and Shine. Hit the ground running.
Ways to Shine this week:
- One: Bold: Showing up at work on Friday.
- Two: Open/Reflect: Listening and reflecting on Thursday when I am at David’s school for Lit Club.
- Three: Heal: Journaling for my January OLW work.
I am looking forward to: the next two days of rest and then slowly getting back into routine.
This week’s challenges: easing back into work will definitely be challenging.
Top Goals:
- Work: catch up on email. finish mentor matching.
- Personal: create nourish routine.
- Family: create some routine for Nathaniel and math.
I will focus on my core desires (bold, mindful, nourish, love) by: journaling, making a plan, starting to slowly integrate one thing at a time into my daily life.
This week, I will say yes to: being here now. not resisting. not wanting something else. just being here.
This week, I will say no to: negative thinking. overwhelm.
I am worried that: i will not have enough time to catch up on the things I want to catch up on.
This week, I want to remember: to just take it one moment at a time. and that i work well with plans and should make some. it takes time but it’s always worth it.
Hello 2017!
- Weekly Intention: And here we are with week 50. We’re down to the last three weeks of the year. How quickly time passes blows my mind. There were many things I wanted to do last week that I didn’t get to and truth be told, I don’t think I will get to them this week either. Such is life. I feel like the 2017 plans are looming over me. I spent some serious time with Core Desires this week and it was worthwhile. I then had a moment of truth yesterday which also helped clarify some soul work I should be doing in 2017. But I still don’t have my projects/plans written out and I like to have it all by now. What I’ve noticed is that when I do have the little down time I have, I am not spending it wisely. Well, I am reading. I am working on my December book, etc. Not that these things aren’t important but I am not sitting with the kids, teaching like I used to. I am not planning my 2017 and what I’d like to work on. I am not journaling to understand how I feel. And these things are more important. These things are how I heal, how I grow, how I nurture. So I need to switch that around. I need to make the time for what I value first and then fill the rest with the things I like.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to show up at both of the kids’ schools with joy and presence.
- Two: I will choose to go to work, be present, work hard when I am there.
- Three: I will choose to spend some quiet time with myself. Do journaling. Something to ground myself. This will be hard as it’s a busy week but I will take the time to make this happen.
- I am looking forward to: Friday. Even if I will be on the plane most of the day.
- This week’s challenges: I have two trips to work, two to Nathaniel’s school, two to David’s school, and a book club this week, all before Friday. I have several things that must be done for work before the week is out. I expect this will be a challenging week.
- Top Goals:
- Work: clear emails, finalize okrs, send out newsletters, write interview notes. these are my must-dos this week.
- Personal: I would like two hours alone this week. Somewhere to sit and think and journal. Let’s see if I can make it happen.
- Family: I am hoping we will all feel adventurous this week.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to Nathaniel’s class this week. I get to volunteer there and I am looking forward to it.
- I will be strong make it through this week and get everything done so I can take my vacation in peace.
- I will be generous with my family. with time, effort, kindness.
- I will be true to myself about my needs. i will make a plan for growth and kindness.
- I will be brave and take this week one day at a time. make the most of each moment. be present and do what needs to be done then.
- This week, I want to remember: that my life is rich and joyful and the gratitude i feel deep in my heart is unbounded.
Here’s to a wonderful week. Happy week 50!
- Weekly Intention: Wow, week 49. This year is racing to the end. Last week was crazy busy and gave me less than zero personal time. Including the weekend, which means I didn’t do much of what I wanted to do last week (except for work.) So here’s what’s on my mind for this week:
- I did buy some Christmas presents but I’d like to be done with that 100% this week.
- I booked us a vacation for a short trip in December I’d like to do a bit of research so we can have a plan for when we’re there.
- I’d like to spend some time on my 2017 plans, it feels like I might never get this done.
- I’d also like some downtime this week. Some time to sleep, some time to rest, some time to slow down.
- Also, we need to buy clothes for our trip to Canada since it will apparently be -20Celcius and living in California, none of us have clothes or shoes for such weather.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to work enough that I don’t worry about work this week. Do what needs to be done.
- Two: I will choose to do my December Daily.
- Three: I will choose to spend some quiet time with myself. Do journaling. Something to ground myself.
- I am looking forward to: enjoying the moments of this week.
- This week’s challenges: not that i want to jinx it but nothing looks too terrifying this week. a trip to work, one trip to N’s school, two trips to D’s school, book club. Which sounds like a lot but it’s a quieter week for me, may it stay so. the biggest challenge will be to finish xmas shopping and to get our clothes+shoes for Canada especially since I hate shopping.
- Top Goals:
- Work: stay on top of email + newsletters + asap do lists. let’s make this happen!
- Personal: i almost don’t even want to write make the 2017 plan. maybe just journaling this time?
- Family: presents+shopping+slow down and be nice!
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to Nathaniel this week. I would like to give him a bit extra attention. And help David with math.
- I will be strong and get xmas done, wrap all the presents, and buy the warm clothes we need.
- I will be generous with our trip, i will relax.
- I will be true to myself about my limits. some things will get done, many things won’t. that’s just life.
- I will be brave with the shopping. i so hate shopping.
- This week, I want to remember: that adventures are good. they are worthwhile. even the ones that don’t work as expected.
Here’s to a wonderful week. Happy December!
- Weekly Intention: Back to work this week. It’s amazing how slowly and quickly the week off passed. I learned that I do better with schedules and plans because it’s easy for me to power down to full sloth mode when I am off. And while a little of that is a good thing, a lot of that most definitely is not good for my soul. So, like everything else, I need some balance in this, too. My intentions for this week are:
- First, I would like to catch up to work and feel like I am in the loop again and reconnect with my people.
- Second, I’d like to take a bit of time sketching out December. I will have a bunch more downtime and I want to be a bit more intentional about how I spend the time.
- Third, I’d like to buy Christmas presents.
- Fourth, I’d like to spend some time on my 2017 plans, I’d usually have long finished this by now.
- Fifth, I’d like to make a health plan for myself. What it means to be healthy for me, how to come up with a sustainable plan, etc. I feel like this is important to me and yet I never like to make the time for it.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to work a lot, catch up, feel grounded and connected at work.
- Two: I will choose to spend a lot of my personal time on the intentions above.
- Three: I will choose to pay attention to all the layers of my life this week.
- I am looking forward to: working.
- This week’s challenges: i’m volunteering at David’s school for a long time this week. I also have late nights and meetings all week. Some important conversations tomorrow. But mostly I want to get a lot done this week on the personal/emotional side along with work so that will be hard, I am sure.
- Top Goals:
- Work: catch up to email + work.
- Personal: make the 2017 plan. yes it’s time.
- Family: december plan. buy presents. i can do this.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to my back this week. I’ve been in a lot of pain on my back and neck and jaw. I am not sure if it’s due to the puzzle making but it’s a lot of pain so I will try to back off a bit and see if that helps.
- I will be strong and organized and get these items crossed off my todo list.
- I will be generous with the xmas presents. I will try to buy thoughtful presents for my whole family.
- I will be true to my goals around growth and start figuring out my plans for next year. these plans help me grow each year.
- I will be brave with work tomorrow.
- This week, I want to remember: that this year is almost over. I am not sure how we got here so quickly but here we are. days, weeks, months, years are passing. i am so grateful for each year i get to have. for each moment.
Here’s to a wonderful week and for those of you who live in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving!
- Weekly Intention: I am off work this week! Weee! Nathaniel is home all week and David has grandparents day at his school on Wednesday and Jake has a surgery on Wednesday afternoon, so I decided it was a good week to stay home and focus on my boys and take some serious downtime. My intention this week is to slow down. So so much that I feel the scarcity dissipate and the abundance creep in. I notice when I really slow down, things feel less urgent and I feel more peaceful so here’s to hoping for some of that this week.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to read quietly and enjoy my time at home.
- Two: I will choose to see if I can make some more plans for 2017, get a bit closer to understanding my goals/wishes/hopes.
- Three: I will choose to be present and enjoy my time with all three of my boys.
- I am looking forward to: downtime. relaxing. reading.
- This week’s challenges: even though he’s done it before, i am always nervous when jake goes in for this surgery. I’ll breathe better when he’s out of it safe and sound.
- Top Goals:
- Work: do not check email. do. not.
- Personal: make more progress on the 2017 plan. Do the desired feelings exercise. (i didn’t do either of these last week so carrying it forward.)
- Family: make a holiday plan for the kids. (i didn’t do this last week, either!) and buy more presents for xmas, and put up our tree. love love love this time of year.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to nathaniel this week during our alone time early in the week. kind to jake after his surgery. kind to everyone as much as i can.
- I will be strong and sit with all the discomfort around the health and body issues i seem to be having lately.
- I will be generous with my family this week. Give more time, be more patient, feel abundance.
- I will be true to what i love the most. resting and reading and reflecting.
- I will be brave with disconnecting and knowing that work will still be there when i am back.
- This week, I want to remember: that these three people are the ones that matter the most to me in the world. that there’s nothing more I want than to make them feel loved and make them remember that they will always always always belong with me. I cherish every day I get with them. Every day.
Here’s to a wonderful week and for those of you who live in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving!
- Weekly Intention: This is the last week before Thanksgiving and I am hoping/planning to take Thanksgiving week off so my intention this week is to get a lot of work done so I can leave work in a good state. My hope is to not do any work at all for the 9 days (including both weekends) and instead use the time to wind down, be with my boys, and take care of Jake who will have surgery in the middle of that week. To be able to do that, I’d like to make sure I do a solid amount of work this week and feel good about where I leave things. On a personal note, I have three book club meetings this week (they all fell in the same week this month) and I have to go to David’s school twice and Nathaniel’s school twice, so it promises to be a full week. I’d like to start practicing patience, discipline, and kindness all week.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to connect with each of the teams I work with so I can have a solid list for how I can help them.
- Two: I will choose to dive deeper into some of the new teams I took on during the summer.
- Three: I will choose to see if I can make some changes in what I eat to see if it helps with the energy.
- I am looking forward to: learning about some of the work i’ve been putting off learning about.
- This week’s challenges: three book clubs, two visits to each school, ortho appointment, a client meeting, a trip to work, and I still need to get a lot of work done. here’s to pulling it all off with grace.
- Top Goals:
- Work: Todo list and ASAP lists down to zero. Make a plan for what I will do for each team.
- Personal: make more progress on the 2017 plan. Do the desired feelings exercise.
- Family: make a holiday plan for the kids. ( i didn’t do this last week!) and start making lists for presents to buy.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to some of my more neglected teams this week. I am going to try to do an extra good job.
- I will be strong and try a new morning exercise routine every day this week.
- I will be generous with work again. I will also be generous with my social events. Even if it means a little less generous with sleep this week.
- I will be true to my need to be honest. Share my worries and concerns with my teams.
- I will be brave with my honesty and vulnerability.
- This week, I want to remember: that this is exactly why I love working from home. Because my life is layered and rich and I have no work/life balance, my work and life weave in and out of each other and I love my work, my family time, my book clubs, volunteering, reading, and my coaching. I love every bit of my life. I love all of what I do. I am lucky to get to do each of these things and I will savor it all.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
- Weekly Intention: We are now one day away from Election Day. I haven’t discussed politics here very much and I don’t think I will break that trend today. I have spent an unreasonable amount of hours watching CNN over the last year. I’ve read many articles and clicked on just about every political link on my facebook home (links pointing to both directions.) I don’t want to imply that I am apathetic about this election. I have very strong feelings about the election, the candidates, the possible outcomes, etc. But what I really want to mention more than anything is that if you’re in the United States, I beg you not to take your right to vote for granted. With all that’s going on in my homeland, and around the world, it’s even more clear to me that the right to vote is a huge privilege. No matter who your candidate is, no matter your views, I hope you go and vote. Make sure your voice is heard. I am proud to live and raise my kids in a country where that’s possible. I know it’s not the case everywhere in the world. Having said all that, I know most of my week (at least the first part of it) will be overtaken by the election. Everything else I will do will have to stand in the shadow of the election. I will breathe a sigh of relief (at least I hope so!) when this is all over and I can finally stop watching CNN. This election has made me really anxious, sad, frustrated and I am really ready to move on from all this negativity.
Besides the election watching, I hope to spend my time and energy on getting some solid work done this week. I would like to check off some of the items i’ve been carrying for a while. I would like to also do some serious planning for 2017. I have my olw and my other words for 2017 so far, I think. But I’d like to figure out my project, plans, thoughts around the year. I’d like to come up with a reasonable list that I know I can successfully accomplish and still get a lot of joy from.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to vote. I will walk to my polling place with my kids. I will do my research on the initiatives. I will do my duty as a citizen. I am so grateful to get to vote.
- Two: I will choose to work hard. I want to cross off some serious todo list items.
- Three: I will choose to go back to exercising again and see if i can make a food plan of some kind.
- I am looking forward to: election day. scared. anxious. nervous. really worried. will watch every minute.
- This week’s challenges: tomorrow is a tough day. and i think tuesday will be, too. but i am hoping the rest of the week will be quiet.
- Top Goals:
- Work: Emails down to zero. Time to cross off some major todo items!
- Personal: Get my 2017 plan, journal, rest, exercise, eat good food. (same as last week, sadly) oh and VOTE.
- Family: make a holiday plan for the kids.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to everyone this week. I will experiment with being my best version.
- I will be strong and go back to regular exercise. I can do this.
- I will be generous with work. I want to get stuff done!
- I will be true to my needs but also figure out what’s good for me. I need some work in this area.
- I will be brave and have faith that things will be ok.
- This week, I want to remember: that everything will be ok. I have been feeling down and anxious and tired and overwhelmed lately. I want to remember that it’s the darker days that might be contributing to this. Or the anxiety over the election. Or even watching so much news. I would like to take time to make a plan for some fun and adventure and I also would like to remember that everything is transient. This, too, will pass.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
- Weekly Intention: We are now on week 44 of this year. How did this happen? I am both ready and not ready for the year to be over. I usually take a lot of downtime during the holidays and I really hope I can do that this year, too. I need it even more than ever. Anyhow, back to this week. This week I have a trip to work, two to David’s school, one to Nathaniel’s school, and Halloween, of course. I am not a fan of Halloween. Not a fan of scary things. I much prefer Christmas. I have a medium size of work and personal work to do, but I know it will still be hard because I am very jetlagged and my spine is really hurting (likely from travel) so I will need a lot of rest. So I think I will make my intention to get a lot of rest while taking sprints of getting work done. I think that would make me happiest this week. I’ve been thinking a bit about 2017 plans too and would like to write stuff down this week. And to put my 2016 December Daily pre pages together. Let’s see how much of that gets done.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to rest when I need it and get back to exercise.
- Two: I will choose to pace myself with books, and my personal todo list. It can all wait.
- Three: I will choose to start learning some of the statistics and metrics work I want to learn.
- I am looking forward to: David’s teacher conference this Friday.
- This week’s challenges: I think most of the challenges will be me. How tired I am. So I will try to block some sprint working time and then I will give myself grace to rest as much as possible. Here’s to hoping it works!!
- Top Goals:
- Work: Emails down to zero. One spreadsheet to make, one document to comment on and learning analytics. that’s my goal this week. Everything else is bonus.
- Personal: Get my 2017 plan, journal, rest, exercise, eat good food.
- Family: Hug kids. hug them more. be kind. be kinder.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to myself. Give myself grace to recover.
- I will be strong and ask for what I want/need.
- I will be generous with my kindness. I want to try to be as kind as possible.
- I will be true to my priorities and remember that things are less urgent than they seem.
- I will be brave and give myself what I need. I am often scared to take a break but i really need it.
- This week, I want to remember: that my life is so full and so layered and it’s exactly how I want it to be. I designed it and I love all aspects of it. Sometimes I feel like I am the victim of my life but to be honest, I chose everything in my life and I wouldn’t want to give any of it up. So I just need to check in with myself and see if I still would choose a particular thing that seems to feel overwhelming at the moment. Remember to give myself grace. Remember that I can make different choices if that’s what I’d like. And I want to remember that life is a marathon and not a sprint. I want to savor the journey. To be present for the journey. I am so grateful for my journey.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
- Weekly Intention: As you read this, I am in Sydney, Australia again. My last trip was in July and both so much and so little has happened since then. It’s likely this is my last trip this year, so I want to make sure to make the most of it. I will only be in Sydney for four days. More reason to really make the most of it. For me, the most important outcome from the next week would be to spend 1-1 time with as many of the managers and tech leads as possible. To create the personal connections that make it easier for me to do my job well. I’d also like to socialize but not so much that it will wear me down emotionally so that I can’t do the work part of work. I also hope to get a bit closer to one of my teams in Seattle who will also be there at the same time. And, of course, I also intend to support my boys at home in any way I can remotely. And to get some sleep!
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to work hard at the airport and on the plane and get some work done, write up some notes for myself.
- Two: I will choose to be present while there, make the most of the moments of being away from home and able to 100% focus on work.
- Three: I will choose to take care of myself and eat and sleep well.
- I am looking forward to: meeting more of the Sydney team members. seeing beautiful Sydney.
- This week’s challenges: I have 33 hours of flying this week between Sunday and Friday. That’s 33 hours on a plane over the course of 6 days. I just want to make sure to both use that time well and to rest a lot. I have to sleep on the way there because I get in Monday morning an hour before my first meeting of the day! And then I arrive back home on Friday morning and have to go right to Nathaniel’s Halloween parade and then that night is David’s first middle school dance. It’s going to be a bit of a crazy week.
- Top Goals:
- Work: I think I’ve already covered this one with the weekly intention.
- Personal: I want to make sure to get enough sleep and choose food that will give me energy.
- Family: I want to make sure to talk to my boys daily.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to everyone I meet this week. I will do my best to shine and smile.
- I will be strong and be present, and use my time well in Sydney.
- I will be generous with others and help in any way I can at work this week.
- I will be true to the best version of myself.
- I will be brave and show up even when I am scared. Go to social events. Smile.
- This week, I want to remember: that I am so lucky to get to go to Australia. I am so lucky that Jake can take care of the homefront so I don’t have to be worried. That the kids are very lucky to have so much alone time with their daddy. I am so incredibly grateful for this life.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
- Weekly Intention: I didn’t get to do my intention from last week. I feel like I have been so busy living my life that when I am not busy living it, I am relaxing on the couch and trying to do nothing for as long as possible. Which is not how I want to live but I also am not sure how to change it. I don’t even want to assume I can make plans to think this week because I have a very heavy load of commitments this week and then halfway through my weekend, I am leaving for Sydney. So I think I will aim for my intention to be hanging out with my kids as much as possible, being kind to Jake, and making it through the days with grace.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to check off as many todos as possible so I don’t drag them with me to Australia.
- Two: I will choose to spend as much time as possible with the boys, and tuck them in every night.
- Three: I will choose to be present, use my time well, and be kind.
- I am looking forward to: book club, Nathaniel’s shadow, the debate.
- This week’s challenges: I have to go up to David’s school three times this week. I have to go to Nathaniel’s once. I have two coaching clients, a hair appointment and a book club meeting. That’s a lot of commitments. I also leave for Australia on Saturday night. Not a lot of downtime.
- Top Goals:
- Work: My intention this week is to make a lot of progress on all my other tasks so I can focus on Transit and Notifications when I am in Sydney.
- Personal: I want to sleep eight hours each night. I need it.
- Family: I want to give time freely to my kids. Really cherish their presence.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to my family. I love them so much and I am not the easiest person to have around sometimes.
- I will be strong and just make it through this week with grace.
- I will be generous with the kids. Spend time helping with homework.
- I will be true to what makes me me. True to my values. I feel like I am not the best version of myself lately.
- I will be brave and ask for what I need.
- This week, I want to remember: that we are all struggling in our own ways and we all want others to like us and we all want to do a good job. I will assume the very best of others and assume that they want that for me, too.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
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projects for twenty twenty-four
projects for twenty twenty-three
projects for twenty twenty-two
projects for twenty twenty-one
projects for twenty nineteen
projects for twenty eighteen
projects from twenty seventeen
monthly projects from previous years
some of my previous projects
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