Weekly Intention: This is the week I’ve been working so hard for, for the last few weeks. We have a big offsite all week, so I expect this week to be early mornings, long nights and a lot of running around. My intention this week is to connect with my kids as much as I can in the early part of the week and then work as hard as I can when I will be away. I want to pace myself and do what I need to do to take care of myself. Let’s see what I can do.

This month’s intention is: Stronger than Before: Here’s your chance to give it one last push before the year’s over. Where are you still wanting to be stronger? How can you help yourself get stronger than before? How can you take things one notch higher? One notch deeper? Hmm this is an interesting one. I expect October to be a reasonably tough month so it’s good for me to think about how I can take it a notch deeper. 

One way I will stretch this week:  I think the hours alone will stretch me this week.

One boundary I will set this week: i will try my best to get sleep. I think it will be challenging.

This week, I will focus on pleasing: the head of our group. this is her week.

One new thing I will learn this week: how to put one of these on.

One area where I will go deeper this week: i think maybe i’ll take notes for my big event coming in December.

What do I need to sit with this week? i will just have to sit with not having much alone or recovery time this week. 

I am looking forward to: being at carmel even if I will be working. 

This week’s challenges: sleep. peace.

Top Goals: 

• Work:  be all in.
• Personal: get sleep as often as i can. take care of myself.
• Family: love them hard.

I will focus on my values:

• Love: love all the opportunities I get.
• Learn:  what makes an offsite work well.
• Peace: peace with being present.
• Service: to work this week.
• Gratitude: for kindness of others.

This week, I want to remember: that we worked hard and now we just do what we can.

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.

Weekly Intention: Ok now we’re down to the last two weeks before a big event at work. These two weeks will be stressful but also really rewarding. My intention is to be really grounded. To do my exercise, eat well, and sleep. I haven’t slept enough in two weeks, I plan to fix that. I really appreciate routine even more during these weeks. I’d like to journal/meditate and practice extra gratitude this week. Let’s bring it on.

This month’s intention is: Love Strong: This month is hard. There are transitions, new schedules and more. Use this month to think about what it would look like to love more. Love yourself more: more self-care and kindness. What boundaries can help you? Love Jake more: what’s something you can do for the two of you? Love your kids more: How can you help them with the transition? ok i would like to do more here. i am going to journal a bit this week on this.

One way I will stretch this week:  I am going to try to add the running back in, let’s see if i can do it.

One boundary I will set this week: i will cook at night.

This week, I will focus on pleasing: work. i want to get this right.

One new thing I will learn this week: how to put this offsite together.

One area where I will go deeper this week: 8th grade curriculum for my son. and i have some fun classes too.

What do I need to sit with this week? how to go through the next 3 weeks with grace and joy. 

I am looking forward to: the 8th grade tea, i love being at my kids’ school.

This week’s challenges: balancing life depending on how stressful work is.

Top Goals: 

• Work:  october, planning, december. those are my goals.
• Personal: run for 30 mins 3 times this week, four body pumps, refocus on good nutrition, meditate, journal, art+scrap, stretch, evening routine as much as possible
• Family: cook for jake,  help kids with school+routine, figure out plans for the rest of 2018 and some of 2019.

I will focus on my values:

• Love: love and care and grace for my family.
• Learn:  how to truly incorporate the running.
• Peace: peace with the churn at work.
• Service: to martha.
• Gratitude: for how good all this is.

This week, I want to remember: this is a marathon and i need to pace myself.

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.

Weekly Intention: This is a crazy week. I feel like I say that often. So today there’s no work or school(yay!) But then tomorrow midday I have a work social event which doesn’t get me home till 6:30pm or so. Wednesday’s even longer with getting home around 8 and it’s Jake’s birthday!! Poor Jake has to pickup the kids from a cross country meet on his birthday. And then Thursday is still my offsite which ends around 3 and I have to run back home to run to the kids’ school for back to school night. Friday I get to go to work for a little bit and then my inlaws come so that Jake and I can go away for the weekend (not really far away but we will not be at home so we can spend time just the two of us during the weekend between his and my birthday.) So a lot going on. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be really long, Friday will involve chaos and driving, and while the weekend will be awesome, I usually do a lot of work over the weekend and I will not be able to which will make next week a bit challenging (especially since I plan to take a few days off next week, too.) We’ll see how it all unfolds. On the upside every one of the individual things makes me happy so I will enjoy everything while I experience it and not worry about the next thing before it’s here. LEt’s see how well I can do being present in this moment.

This month’s intention is: Love Strong: This month is hard. There are transitions, new schedules and more. Use this month to think about what it would look like to love more. Love yourself more: more self-care and kindness. What boundaries can help you? Love Jake more: what’s something you can do for the two of you? Love your kids more: How can you help them with the transition? Oh this is lovely. This weekend is something I can do for the two of us and I will be thinking about the other questions, too. I love how serendipitous these feel!

One way I will stretch this week:  I am hoping the offsite will stretch me, and possibly the hiking will too because it usually hurts my back :/

One boundary I will set this week: when I am with Jake I will focus 100% on jake. 

This week, I will focus on pleasing: my husband. it’s his birthday week!! 

One new thing I will learn this week: how to make these offsites even better.

One area where I will go deeper this week: the curriculum for 8th grade.

What do I need to sit with this week? the chaos i know that will ensue when my colleague is back.

I am looking forward to: our weekend together. being by the water.

This week’s challenges: tuesday’s hike. honoring jake on his actual birthday, 3 really long days, transitioning to leaving the kids behind. not getting work done on the weekend.

Top Goals: 

• Work:  do one more turn of the crank for october. be present.
• Personal: run for 30 mins 3 times this week (maybe sun, mon, fri), one body pump, one hiit, refocus on good nutrition, meditate, journal, art+scrap, stretch, evening routine as much as possible
• Family: cook for jake+celebrate Jake,  help kids with school+routine

I will focus on my values:

• Love: love for my one and only husband! 
• Learn:  i want to focus here to be on eating better this week. i did quite poorly last week.
• Peace: peace with the long days
• Service: to my team, to school, and mostly to JAKE! 🙂
• Gratitude: my inlaws who flew here so we could have this time for ourselves.

This week, I want to remember: that i am super lucky and there are so many things to celebrate in all areas of my life!

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.

Weekly Intention: This week looks like it’s going to be a long week. I had hoped I could take a vacation day this week since it’s the last week before school starts but it looks like it won’t be possible as I have a slew of meetings all week. But the boys will come visit me on Tuesday and I am excited for that and I will do the best I can to come home early and be engaged. I did make some plans for the transition to school but we’ll see how they work out. The plan for this week is to just savor our last week of summer. To have fun and go on adventures in the evenings, even if it means I don’t get my personal todos done.

This month’s intention is: Shine Strong: This month is for showing up. Show up at work. Show up with the kids. Show up as we close out the summer and start a new school year. Let your light shine on everyone you meet this month. I love this one. I am going to do this. Take it all up a notch and I will add one more: show up for myself, too. 

One way I will stretch this week:  It looks like work is about to kick up a few notches so I am going to try really hard not to mess things up and I am also going to be running quite a lot this week so that will stretch me.

One boundary I will set this week: i am going to do my best to try and stay grounded and assume all will be okay.

This week, I will focus on pleasing: a few projects at work.

One new thing I will learn this week: i did the sketching work last week so maybe this week i can focus on the next video in my painting class.

One area where I will go deeper this week: a few things at work, I think.

What do I need to sit with this week? my anxiety around the next few weeks, i want to enjoy my days.

I am looking forward to: enjoying our last week.

This week’s challenges: just making sure requirements and todos are clear for some of the things that need to come together at work

Top Goals: 

• Work:  make a deck for metrics, plan december more, allyship send, flesh out sept offsite, start on oct offsite. think about other areas
• Personal: couch 2 5K, body pump, hiit, good nutrition, meditate, journal, art+scrap, stretch, evening routine
• Family: cook for jake, math, comp sci and physics with david and math, vocab and comp sci with Nathaniel, fun time!!

I will focus on my values:

• Love: love for my family a lot this week. as much as i can.
• Learn:  didn’t do OLW still and some catch up on my weekly book too
• Peace: peace with the chaos at work.
• Service: to the changes coming up.
• Gratitude: for my family.

This week, I want to remember: that it’s all going to be okay. I will not let everyone down. 

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.

Weekly Intention: Monday and Tuesday this week I will work from home. Maybe because of that or maybe just in general, the rest of the week looks reasonably tough. So my intention this week is to make sure I can come up with a good plan to make it through this week with grace. I will make sure I have my morning time each day and if I can carve even a little time for journaling next week, I think that would be really nice. 

This month’s intention is: Mentally Strong: Time to learn some new things. How can you grow intellectually? What classes do you want to take? What do you want to teach the kids? Oh this one is interesting. I am actually deciding not to do this. Instead I will focus on some personal goals. I will teach kids stuff, and that’s definitely one of the intentions. Nathaniel and I will work on math and writing together. David and I will work on Physics and Computer Science. For me, though, I am focusing on three things: health (exercise+food+meditation), art (drawing and watercolors even though I’ve done nothing here), and stories (journaling and simple scrapbooking.) That’s my focus for July. I did poorly on the art last week, I’d love to spend a bit more time on it this week. Let’s see. 

One way I will stretch this week:  We signed up for a family kayak adventure during the meteor shower this weekend and none of us know how to kayak so that will be a stretch.

One boundary I will set this week: i will continue not to bring work home at nights. That break has been really good for me.

This week, I will focus on pleasing: my husband. 

One new thing I will learn this week: i think i will buckle down and sign up for an art class, i don’t seem to be doing it otherwise.

One area where I will go deeper this week: journaling still is my goal :/. also maybe figuring out a night routine, there aren’t too many things: clean my face, floss, etc but i just can’t ever seem to get it into a rhythm. 

What do I need to sit with this week? how i’m feeling about work, life and myself. my contributions to the world in general.

I am looking forward to: working from home a bit. it will be a nice change of pace.

This week’s challenges: wednesday will be a bit challenging with some extra driving thrown in there for me.

Top Goals: 

• Work:  the onboarding doc v2, thoughts on metrics, accessibility work, double down on the offsite
• Personal: couch 2 5K, exercise, good nutrition, meditate, journal, find and start art class, scrap
• Family: cook for jake, math, comp sci and physics with david and math, vocab and comp sci with Nathaniel

I will focus on my values:

• Love: i will focus on meditation this week. 
• Learn:  i am planning to do this OLW homework next week which will be learning focused. i’ll share more when i have it.
• Peace: peace with the way things are at work, and the way people are 
• Service: to myself figuring out next phase of my work still seems like the right one for now
• Gratitude: for my amazing and kind husband

This week, I want to remember: that life ebbs and flows and specific events don’t mean as much as i worry they do. 

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.

Weekly Intention: This week is going to be a tough week with a lot of back to back meetings. I have 53 meetings on my calendar for the week at the moment. Plus I run 3 times a week and exercise all 5 days. I am trying to cook dinner each night and spend time with one kid alternating each evening. That doesn’t leave for a lot of extra room in my life this week. So my intentions this week will be more about how I show up. I want to be listening a lot this week. Pay attention to what’s working and what’s not. Pay attention to where I can be of service. Let others speak and listen. That’s my intention this week.

This month’s intention is: Mentally Strong: Time to learn some new things. How can you grow intellectually? What classes do you want to take? What do you want to teach the kids? Oh this one is interesting. I am actually deciding not to do this. Instead I will focus on some personal goals. I will teach kids stuff, and that’s definitely one of the intentions. Nathaniel and I will work on math and writing together. David and I will work on Physics and Computer Science. For me, though, I am focusing on three things: health (exercise+food+meditation), art (drawing and watercolors), and stories (journaling and simple scrapbooking.) That’s my focus for July. I did poorly on the art last week, I’d love to spend a bit more time on it this week. Let’s see. 

One way I will stretch this week:  I’m going to attempt to have a conversation with my manager. let’s see.

One boundary I will set this week: i will make sure home-time is my time this week and try hard not to do work then. 

This week, I will focus on pleasing: i am going to see if i can get some of my questions/worries answered.

One new thing I will learn this week: i’m going to try to spend a bit more time meditating than i did last week.

One area where I will go deeper this week: journaling since i didn’t last week.

What do I need to sit with this week? how to think about my exercise and food routine longer term. 

I am looking forward to: my 1-1’s this week. learning more, listening more.

This week’s challenges: just a lot of meetings, my bet is also more soreness and tiredness.

Top Goals: 

• Work:  have a talk. 
• Personal: couch 2 5K, exercise, good nutrition, meditate, journal, do art
• Family: cook for jake, math and physics with david and math, vocab and comp sci with Nathaniel

I will focus on my values:

• Love: love for myself. how can i be kinder? give myself grace.
• Learn:  how do draw
• Peace: peace with the discipline the nutrition and exercise requires and faith that it will all help
• Service: to my husband by feeding him well when i can. 
• Gratitude: for the gym at work and for healthy food at work.

This week, I want to remember:that things are always worse in my head.

Stronger Than Before is a year-long project for 2018. You can read more about my projects for 2018 here.