Living Intentionally – 44

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.

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 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!