What is consuming your time?

What takes up your time? Do you hide under the table like Kai, (see picture below) take the easy route, and avoid the things that you should really be working on?

This holiday what do you want to do?
Do you want to organize your house, spend time with family, exercise, read a book, play a board game with your children, go back to school, go to church, volunteer at a homeless shelter, go on a date night with your significant other, cook dinner for your neighbor?

I know what you’re thinking, “Megan, I don’t have time to do all of those things. I work full time and have 3 kids and a husband who works and we have sports in the evenings .”

Yes life is busy but it’s just as busy as we make it. We fill our time with things we want to do or what we see as a priority. Often times we will avoid difficult or undesirable tasks by modeling what Kai is doing and acting like they aren’t there. There are 24 hours in a day. This week, make a list each day of 2 tasks you want to accomplish. Any start is a start. Tasks can include: clean off my desk, spend 30 minutes quality time with my kids, go on free outside date night with my spouse, sweep the floor, scrub the tub, apply to that school program). Write them down!! Having a visual is something that will keep you more accountable & for me the feeling of checking off those things as completed is a feeling like no other!

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So how do I find time to do those things?
1. Turn off the TV & put down the phone.
Soooo much time is wasted scrolling Facebook or watching shows that have no positive impact on your life.
2. Wake up 30 minutes earlier than you already are. Getting things accomplished first thing in the morning is a great way to positively begin your day.
3. Remove things from your life that take away from achieving those goals. Decrease your smoke breaks, decrease snacking/joy eating, stay home more.
4. Don’t hide from the tasks like Kai. Get up and do them without ANY EXCUSES!

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”

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