You can read the story of this project here.
This is assignment four. It’s all about play! This one had me sad at first because I am not sure I know how to play. Then I realized that maybe my definition of what others call play is too narrow. So I decided to define it my own way. Which then opened up a lot of possibilities like taking classes, journaling, scrapping, photography, being with friends, art journaling, and more.
So here’s to defining things my own way!
Art Boards is a Monthly Project for November 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here. You can read about the start of this project here.
Weekly Intention: This week has the advantage of being no meeting week. Which doesn’t mean I have no meetings, but it does mean I will have fewer meetings. I was about to write that this is the first week in a while I won’t go to the kids’ school twice in the same week but alas I am having to go on Friday for parent conferences so there we are. My intention this week is actually twofold: get what needs to be done and rest. I need some serious downtime.
Things I want to get Done: Here’s the list for his week.
- Work: finish round 2 of 2018 planning
- Work: start mentoring form
- Work: clean email
- Personal: exercise at least 4 times at work.
- Personal: fix the eating issue!
- Personal: Journal three times.
- Personal: Start December Daily pre-pages
- Personal: Do November OLW
- Personal: Continue with the new scrapping/storytelling system.
- Personal: Rest more
- Family: do coding+spelling with N
- Family: do calculus with D
- Family: take photos!
This month’s intention is: Moving on to November: Shine for You: This is your month. Take all the time you need. Shine all your light on yourself. Be kind, practice self-care. Think about the next year and what you want. Think about the rest of this year. You’ve got this. I need self-care.
Ways to Shine this week:
- One: Bold: I think taking time to rest might be my bold move this week.
- Two: Open: Open to figuring out how to change the eating.
- Three: Heal/Nourish: Maybe kicking up the self-care is the right move this week?
I am looking forward to: working on my December Daily.
This week’s challenges: just resting enough will be a challenge.
Top Goals:
- Work: finishing next step of 2018.
- Personal: exercise+food+journaling.
- Family: encouraging my kids a lot
I will focus on my core desires (bold, mindful, nourish, love) by: taking the time to do self-care and to rest this week.
This week, I will say yes to: letting whatever i need to let go so i can rest.
This week, I will say no to: taking more on.
I am worried that: i won’t exercise. i’ll eat poorly. i wont be able to take the time to organize my life. i’ll let down everyone. i won’t rest. i won’t get my energy back. i will fall even more off the line i’m trying to walk. i am also worried that jake’s traveling and i want him back home safely.
This week, I want to remember: that things happen in ebbs and flows and it’s ok to be where I am right now.
You can read the story of this project here.
This is assignment three. It’s all about self-talk. Limiting self-talk and empowering self talk. So I peppered my board with all the topics that create all the negative self-talk in my head. The things I need to remember, the things I try to remind myself, the things that I “know” but can’t seem to really internalize enough.
Art Boards is a Monthly Project for November 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here. You can read about the start of this project here.
How I shone this week: My mom and Dad left this week and while it was quieter than last week, I think I am feeling wiped at this moment and I don’t feel motivated to do many things. Considering all this, I still did a lot this week and feel pretty proud of how much I shone anyway. I showed up for work, for my kids, for my kids’ school and for Jake. My nephews, too. I wasn’t perfect for anyone but I showed up.
Things I wanted to get Done:
- Work: did a few more things but not done 🙁
- Personal: exercised, scrapped, ate soso, zero journaling, didn’t start DD yet either 🙁
- Family: did math with both kids and coding with N, checked in with nephews and took family photos!
I celebrate: remembering what matters most. my work computer died this week and while it would have unraveled me before, i was able to be mindful about how little this matters in the scheme of things.
I am grateful for: i have been in such a grateful space lately. Again and again.
I nourished myself by: resting a bit more.
Reflecting on my worries: I exercised. i ate not great, but not awful. i’m getting more organized. working hard on letting people down less.
I let go of: my dead computer and getting a replacement soon.
Core Desire Check-in (bold, mindful, nourish, love):
- bold: bold and tough changes at school.
- mindful: mindful that i need time off
- nourish: i still need to forcefully go back to my healthy eating
- love: i love that the kids have no school this Friday.
What made me laugh this week: a lot of laughter at work.
What I tolerated this week: feeling very unmotivated.
My mood this week was: blah.
I forgive myself for: not being into things lately. needing rest.
What I love right now: being able to rest a small bit more.
Here’s to a great week 45.
You can read the story of this project here.
This is assignment two. It was about all the spaces in my life. I focused mine on my house and each room in my house. I know you can’t see many of the details but I love the way this turned out in real life. I spent a lot of time thinking about all the rooms in my house and the feeling I want to invoke in each of them.
You can’t see it well but each little square has the name of the room and the feeling/word I want.
Here’s the list:
kitchen – nourished
garage – utility
master bathroom – sanctuary
n’s room – cuddly
my desk – engaging
master bedroom – restore
laundry room – grateful
kids’ bathroom – encouraging
living room – connection
backyard – serene
front yard – community
d’s room – curious
landing – pause
front room – welcoming
Art Boards is a Monthly Project for November 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here. You can read about the start of this project here.
Many months ago, I signed up for a wonderful class by the incomparable Stephanie Lee. I’ve taken many classes from her before and I knew I would like this one.
At the time I took the class, I was in some sort of funk and each week as her emails reached me, I would read them but would not do the journaling or even really the thinking her emails encouraged. I wasn’t in the right place. When the class finished, she announced that she was going to offer another version of the same class, but this time with accompanying art. I signed up again.
And by the time the second iteration rolled around, I was in a different place and was ready to receive and do the work. After the first two weeks, I decided that what I wanted to do for my weekly art piece was art boards. I’ve done visual boards for a few years now, especially for my vision board in One Little Word class, so I had a system.
This month, I will share the pieces I did for her class and then I will share a few pieces I did as a result of a class I took with Brene Brown, and finally I will share my vision boards from the last few years.
I would like to start with the caveat that while I am sharing my work here, nothing you read here will ever replace taking the class. The class is awesome only and only because Stephanie’s words are just right. So I can’t recommend it enough. What I did with each assignment was to do 1-2 pages of journaling and then go to Pinterest and pull images that spoke to me as a response to my journaling.
Here we start with assignment number one. This one is about my life story if I had sufficiency in all the areas of my life. There is a lot of feeling unburdened, peaceful, adventurous, community, letting go and being whimsical in my sufficient life.
Art Boards is a Monthly Project for November 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here. You can read about the start of this project here.
    
I read about Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too in a blog I read where the person said it was their best read of the year. I had never heard of this author so I must be missing some context because I wasn’t crazy about it at all.
I knew I would like The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact and I wasn’t wrong. Great book that I want to read at least once more for practical steps I want to take.
The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish was also very practical and I loved it. I love the idea of the perspective shift this book recommends. I will need to read it a few times.
I read Towers Falling for the 5/6th grade Lit Club I teach at my sons’ school. It was about Sept 11, which I lived through in NYC. I didn’t like the book for a multitude of reasons. It was also the first time I read a book and listened to it where the narrator was incredibly awful. Above and beyond bad.
I am now almost done with Autonomous and even though I read all of it, I can’t fully tell you what it’s about. I mean I can but not really. Not sure it was worth all the time.
Here’s to more & better reading this week!
Books I Read this Week 2017 is a year-long project for 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here.
Mind:
- I read: I’m grateful to be reading a wide range of books in any one week. I also read a few blogs, some Instagram and a few articles but really very few compared to books.
- I learned: nothing new this week 🙁
- I watched: I haven’t even turned on my TV since I’ve been back. I have hours and hours of recorded TV that’s waiting for me, not to mention the new season of Stranger Things.
Body:
- Exercise: I exercised daily this week. Two of my classes were canceled so I had to improvise!
- Monday: Body Pump
- Tuesday: Body Pump
- Wednesday: Sculpt + Core
- Thursday: Yoga
- Friday: Body Pump
- Food: Food’s been all over the place. I am not completely off but I wouldn’t say I’ve been eating well. I’m also getting sick now which sucks and I hope that it won’t be an excuse to eat poorly.
- Body Care: did none still. It’s been a tough week, I hope to have a better one.
Soul:
- I rested: I slept so-so all week.
- I connected: I got to spend time with my friends Leslie and Kelly. Which was wonderful.
- I journaled: I did not journal a word this week!
- I made art: I did nothing new 🙁 but looking forward to December daily.
- Flowers: still filling my life and home with these.
Grateful for nourishing myself more than average but I am slipping a bit and will make an effort to double down over the next few weeks before holiday season officially starts.
Nourish Me Week 2017 is a year-long project for 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here.
While I was in Seattle last week, my Mom and Dad arrived to the Bay Area. They had spent a week in Boston seeing my nephews and my sister and came here to see us. They stayed at a hotel really close to our house and I had the luxury of having a lighter week at work so I got to spend a lot of quality time with them every day.
It was really nice to sit in their hotel and not be rushing around and just relaxing and chatting together in the sun. This is not the kind of experience I get to have with my parents since they live so far away so I was really, deeply grateful.
They will be leaving today and I am hoping they will be back again soon!!
I love you so much mom and dad!!!
Stories from 2017 is a year-long project for 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here.
And here we are. Here’s to keeping this up. Yes, I can.
Love these.
Onward to November!
Twenty Mantras is a Monthly Project for October 2017. You can read more about my projects for 2017 here. You can read about the start of this project here.
Weekly Intention: So, this week is a mish mosh. My parents are here Monday and Tuesday but I have back to back meetings the whole time. Then Tuesday night is Halloween. Not my favorite. Wednesday has a trip to the kids’ school and then is full of meetings. Thursday also has a trip to the kids’ school. And then a hair appointment and Jake leaves Friday (and the kids have no school!) And of course I am sick! So my intention will be to rest as much as humanly possible.
Things I want to get Done: Here’s the list for his week.
- Work: do all the stuff i didn’t do last week!
- Personal: exercise every day at work.
- Personal: fix the eating issue!
- Personal: Journal three times.
- Personal: Start December Daily
- Personal: Continue with the new scrapping/storytelling system.
- Family: do math+spelling with N
- Family: make a plan with D for sure this time!
- Family: Check in regularly with my nephews and my sister.
- Family: take photos!
This month’s intention is: Moving on to November: Shine for You: This is your month. Take all the time you need. Shine all your light on yourself. Be kind, practice self-care. Think about the next year and what you want. Think about the rest of this year. You’ve got this. Ohh how do these always come at the exact right moment!!
Ways to Shine this week:
- One: Bold: Onward and upward with work this week. Let’s get stuff done!
- Two: Open: Open to resting and recovering.
- Three: Heal/Nourish: I just want to eat better.
I am looking forward to: resting a bit.
This week’s challenges: Meh most of this week feels tough at the moment.
Top Goals:
- Work: moving the ball forward a bunch this week.
- Personal: exercise+food+journaling.
- Family: time with parents + jake + kids
I will focus on my core desires (bold, mindful, nourish, love) by: remembering what and who matters most this week.
This week, I will say yes to: loving my people.
This week, I will say no to: not resting.
I am worried that: i won’t exercise. i’ll eat poorly. i wont be able to take the time to organize my life. i’ll let down everyone. i will get sicker. i will fall really behind. ugh.
This week, I want to remember: sick is my body’s way of telling me i need rest.
How I shone this week: This was a good week but also another crazy one. A lot of leadership was away at an event so I had more free time than usual this week but my parents were in town so I gave all of my free time to them. I also volunteered at my kids’ school on Friday all night. I am now a little sick and really, really spent. I am trying to shine but I am not sure I have it in me to do anything but rest for a bit.
Things I wanted to get Done:
- Work: cleared a bunch of email but not fully caught up. no survey, no posters, yet. didn’t write or brainstorm enough. i will have to catch up this week assuming i don’t get sicker.
- Personal: exercised, scrapped, ate soso, zero journaling, didn’t start DD yet either 🙁
- Family: spent time with family, but did no math, no project planning, nothing. boo. did take photos.
I celebrate: i got promoted this week so I am going to go ahead and celebrate that.
I am grateful for: getting to spend so much time with my parents.
I nourished myself by: not much this week unfortunately.
Reflecting on my worries: I exercised. i ate not great, but not awful. i did let some people down but came through for others. trying to get it right more often than not. fail sometimes.
I let go of: getting work done this week.
Core Desire Check-in (bold, mindful, nourish, love):
- bold: i had a lot of bold conversations for my kids’ school this week.
- mindful: mindful that i need sleep and rest so i don’t get sicker
- nourish: i need to forcefully go back to my healthy eating
- love: i love my family so much!
What made me laugh this week: Nathaniel, Kelly, my husband. Love them all so.
What I tolerated this week: being semi-sick all weekend.
My mood this week was: rushed.
I forgive myself for: not getting it all right. i just can’t ever seem to.
What I love right now: i love that my parents are here!!
Here’s to a great week 44.
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