Monday Morning Mission

I am a go go go, do it, do it now, do it right kind of person. I have recently begun to see that does not always serve me well. So in the spirit of creating a life in balance I’ve decided to give myself a weekly mission. A little something to think about or BE during the upcoming week. Something that stretches WHO I be, as well as how I think, something that may or may not help me move more into balance in my life.

I love LISTS!! I love to make lists. I love to check things off lists. I love it all. Each night I create a list of things I want to get done the next day. I prioritize the list from most important or most difficult to accomplish and start with the hardest thing first and work my way through the list until it’s done.

That sounds great ~ and in some ways it is. I get a lot done, but many days it is at the expense of balance, at the expense of my daughter, my house, my husband and sometimes even at the expense of our silly chickens. (I get so busy I forget to let them out of the coop to run around).  Sometimes the list becomes so important that other things take a backseat and that is really NOT why I decided to work from home. I work from home so I can spend time with my family, run my own schedule and have the FREEDOM of not having a job. Yeah ~ not so much lately.

This brings me to this week’s mission.

Work from inspiration

Wow that freaks me out a little bit just saying it.  Speaks to my lack of trust in myself. Which is where a lot of my imbalance seems to stem from.

So what does “working from inspiration” look like?

At each transitional moment of the day I will ask: “What do I REALLY want to do next?” and then I will LISTEN!! Not to my crazy head that says ~ “The next thing on the list, of course, dummy”, but to my inspiration, how I’m feeling emotionally and physlically. I will let how I’m feeling guide me to the perfect next thing.

wow ~ ok, so already today this is how it’s made a difference.

1. Decided to fill the pool so we might swim later in the day.

2. As I sat down to start work I realized I really wanted to take a shower instead. (so I did)

3. Hanna started throwing a fit in the kitchen. Instead of brushing her off I felt like sitting on the floor with her, rocking and talking. (she calmed down quite quickly ~ HMMMM)

4. Felt inspired to write this post BEFORE I checked my email ~ that’s unheard of lol.

I still have a list ~ I made it last night, but with all the exciting new things I am working on it’s more of an inspired list that I wrote down so I don’t forget the things I am feeling excited about. It’s a pretty global list so I think it work quite well for a “weekly” list of things I can work on through out the week. Who knows what else will come up from inspiration and I’m totally open to that as well.

Feel free to call me out if you see me slipping back into go go go mode again this week ~ this is liable to be a challenging mission and I can always use all the help I can get to stay on track. Old habits can be so easy to slip back into.