Weekly Intention: Well here we are. The crazy weeks are starting. My schedule from this week to July is non-stop fun. This week I have four trips to the kids’ school. Two in the morning, one in the afternoon and one at night. It’s also Take your Kid to Work Day on Tuesday which magically happens to be Nathaniel’s birthday. We have his birthday part on Saturday and the Tech Challenge is on Sunday and I get on a flight to Sydney Sunday evening. Of course I have over 40 meetings in between all of these moments. Fun fun fun times. Here’s the thing. I have a lot of variety and insanity in my schedule in these weeks. I have a lot of school things, trips to Tokyo, Sydney, Boston, France, Italy and Spain. I have a ton of work. I have three summits. I am really stressing when I think about it all but I don’t need to think about it all. I can just think one day at a time here. I am very excited about every single item. None of them are chores. They will all be occasions of celebration or learning or connection. Or both or all! I am going to set the intention to be present as much as I can. I will work hard not to rush to the next moment. Not to worry about the next item. Not to stress about any one thing not going perfectly. The collection of all of these things will be wonderful and I will come out on the other side with deeper connection both at work and with my family. I will learn a ton. I will visit magical places. So let’s try to make this fun, Karen, okay?
This month’s intention is: Emotionally Strong: This is the time to work on being a better version of you. And loving you. Loving what is. Respond and don’t react. Journal more. Doing a really crappy job of journaling still and I haven’t even done the OLW for April. I will have to do both April and May in May at this rate.
One way I will stretch this week: My schedule will be a stretch this week. But I will make it work.
One boundary I will set this week: I am going to do better with sleep and food this week. I will limit my lunches to vegetables + protein and my dinners to salads. I will opt out of snacks and drink more liquids.
This week, I will focus on pleasing: Nathaniel, it’s his birthday week!!!
One new thing I will learn this week: I am going to learn more physics with David and more about search engines with Nathaniel.
One area where I will go deeper this week: i want to experiment with journaling times and see if I can do something to make it stick.
What do I need to sit with this week? self-care. I’d like to make a plan for keeping up good habits and self-care as i walk into a period of inconsistency in my schedule and a lot of travel.
I am looking forward to: Nathaniel’s birthday and the Tech Challenge
This week’s challenges: just all the driving to school and juggling that with my schedule.
Top Goals:
- Work: iterate in summits, send out emails to team for geist and summits, get strategy sessions iteration 1 on cals
- Personal: pilates daily, journal, figure out food, pack for Sydney.
- Family: nathaniel’s birthday!! make it awesome! book cars in europe, finish booking summer camps, help nathaniel with his passion projects
I will focus on my values:
- Love: i am going to give some love to my gums this week, i’ve not been flossing much
- Learn: learn what the people want for the summit
- Peace: peace with traveling.
- Service: this week’s service is Nathaniel and school trips.
- Gratitude: my sister and my mom.
This week, I want to remember: that my life is full because of who i am and how i choose to live and all of these are magical moments and i can choose to enjoy them and embrace them.
Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.
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