- Weekly Intention: My intention this week is to catch up to a few work todos I’ve been putting off, but mostly it’s to deep dive into some of the teams I’ve been working with in Seattle because I’m leaving for Seattle on Tuesday night for two days and while there I’d like to learn as much as possible, form personal connections, understand needs, and as always, walk away feeling like the trip was 100% worth it. I would like my days both at home and there to be full, productive, but not exhausting. Let’s see if I can pull it off.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to think about my food. Create new habits around how I eat. This is not about losing weight, giving up sugar or anything extreme/judgmental. Honestly, I just want to be thoughtful about the food I eat and see if I can make conscious choices and also focus more on energy-giving food. I am working hard and long hours, I am running everyday, I am taxing my brain, my heart, my soul, my body so it’s only fair that I can use both food and sleep to replenish some of it. I feel like I respect and value sleep but I don’t extend the same courtesy to food and I’d like to take the first step here.
- Two: I will choose to rest as much as I can this week. Take time to sleep and rest.
- Three: I will choose to do no more than two social events this week. Being in Seattle will already be hard so I want to take it easy.
- I am looking forward to: Seattle: meeting everyone in person. learning more. digging deeper.
- This week’s challenges: Seattle: being away from home is always hard for me. I miss the kids, I work hard, don’t sleep well and feel exhausted. But I am also always glad I went.
- Top Goals:
- Work: My intention this week is to make connections that allow me to do my job well.
- Personal: I’d like to figure out a plan around journaling. it’s my connection to self-awareness and I would like to find time for it.
- Family: I want to do a better job protecting the time between 3:30-6pm for Nathaniel and me.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to my husband this week and try to prepare for when I’ll be out of town.
- I will be strong and do what I need to do to be successful at my work. Even if it means being “annoying” sometimes.
- I will be generous with my time while at Seattle but also take time for me and my family when I am back.
- I will be true to myself. Be who I am, good and bad.
- I will be brave and setup meetings with people I don’t know and try to see if I can get things done.
- This week, I want to remember: that I have the best of intentions. When things are working, I love my job, I love my family, I love my life. And my point of view and interpretation of words has a lot to do with whether I am at my worst or my best. I will choose to assume the best of others, I will choose to hear things from the most positive perspective and I will choose to show up as my best self everywhere I go.
Here’s to a wonderful week!
This is so inspiring because you acknowledge what you’re doing right as well as what you want to improve. “I will choose to show up as my best self” is such positive self talk. I recently heard a Paperclipping Roundtable episode from January where you were talking about intentions and how you were going to approach your new year. I came away with such motivation to really live 2017 with intention. I love your outlook on life and the balance you seek. Thank you.
thank you so much for your kind words Sharon!!