![]() Taking time, when you have mental margin, to reflect on what thriving looks like in your own life is the key for this success.Words matter. Seeking to thrive in your daily life even on the busiest weeks, doesn’t need to be a chore. You don’t have to do all the vacuuming and cleaning, everyone can help. For a few reasons, a family is a team, and it helps spread the mental weight of the practical tasks amongst the household. All hands on deck, everyone in the household should chip in during busy weeks.Sit the family down and walk through the schedule together, get everyone on the same page and make sure the family is clear on the dynamics of the week. Take care of yourself by drinking plenty of water, get outside a little, and prioritize sleep.Use your schedule margin time in advance because you know you won’t have it later. Prep in advance, go to the gas station, grocery store, make sure kids lunch items are stocked and ready, do your laundry.Ticking off the cleaning to do list slowly but effectively across days will give you positive mental momentum. This will allow you to rest up in advance and recover after. Do your best to reduce schedule commitments on bookending weekends around your busy workweek or weeks.Reserve a few frozen dinners (pre-made or bought) in the freezer.Have a premade grocery list, and menu, on hand and in reserve for when you don’t have the mental capacity to create one.Here are some practical ideas to add to your arsenal and busy week emergency fund When the time comes to use, you are so thankful to have it! Tips to ThriveĪlright, since we all have a firm foundation set on the reasons to pursue a state of thriving all the time, let’s dig into some tips. You don’t know when you’ll need it, you just know you will. I compare it to a financial emergency fund. Because when the unexpected events or big tasks of life show up you’ll be grateful for the margin you’ve created. So maintain some extra schedule and mental space in your life, it’s okay. And if we are too busy to barely survive, when an unexpected event happens it can put us into a damaging tailspin that can take a very long time to recover from. The unexpected is to be expected in our lives. Car accidents, illnesses, job uncertainties, or family adjustments. The reason for margin is because life happens. I call this mental space or schedule space. We all need to maintain a certain level of margin in our lives in order for us to thrive. Or just because you have room for one more mental task, doesn’t mean you SHOULD take it on. Just because you have time for one more thing. Lastly before we dive in to a few tips I’d like to share one more thought about this concept of thriving. It can even be a preventative task against those things. The mental health benefits of being outside have been shown to reduce anxiety, and depression. Here are some of the proven benefits to being outside. In your reflecting, I’d challenge you to take some time to be outside, and in a green space off an electronic device. You may choose to carve out the self-reflection time while on vacation, laying in the hammock on a beautiful summer day, finding a quiet place to journal on a hike, in a coffee shop, or even as you process out loud with a loved one. When you are at your most relaxed, that’s when you should put together a list, a journal page, or even a note on your phone of the things you know you NEED in order to stay in a thriving state. So when life gets too busy, it’s important to lean on previously determined plans and skills so we can still thrive. A plan to equip us to thrive through the busy not simply survive. It’s when your schedule, demands upon your life at home and work weigh down on you, and you can’t seem to come up for air. That’s the essence of what I mean by busy. How perfect is the example? Am I right? Being too busy to enjoy ourselves. I love how Oxford defines it and I love their example sentence even more. A word that we use to describe our life sometimes. Let’s consider the word busy as an adjective for the sake of today’s conversation. Press in with me to these ideas and hopefully you can add them to your arsenal to equip you in advance of your next busy week. So let me share some things I’ve learned along the way. I have a bachelor’s in organizational management, a masters in education, have been married and cultivated a family for 18 years. #TO THRIVE MEANING FULL#I’ve spent spent nearly two decades in the field of education doing everything from providing childcare, leading classrooms full of children of all ages, facilitating adult training, and coaching other teachers. ![]()
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