When I first became a stay-at-home-mom after being a working-full-time-for-a-paycheck-mom, I just thought that at some point, I’d figure it out. That my days would just magically take shape. That I would figure out how to juggle the mom stuff, the wife stuff, the homemaking stuff. Then I added work-at-home-mom to my resume, and still hadn’t figured out how to do my days well.
My husband came home for weeks asking me how my day had been and I would blankly stare at him, telling him I had no idea what we had done that day or what I had managed, if anything, to accomplish. And it’s not like nothing was happening at our house. We ate, we had clean clothes, I wrote blogs posts, but it all just seemed to slip right through my fingers.
What started as an exercise to encourage me every day (thanks, Hubby) quickly became this rally point I could get behind. If I could just identify three wins, even tiny minuscule wins, on any given day I could feel like I accomplished something.
So before I knew it, Get Your Groove On was being born out of me trying to sort out how to do a day, a week, a month or my life. How to not forget to pay the water bill while attending weekly Bible study and taking my kids to the zoo. How to go to grocery store with purpose and not just keep thinking “I wiped out the microwave last week, right? It’s probably still good.”
At first, it was about being productive. It was about getting stuff on a to-do list done.
But then, it became this realization that I could kind of sort my time and get things done, then I would have this free time or time to my work. It took a while to sort it all out, a lot of to-do list checking and even some backsliding, but I found my rhythm.
And that’s what Get Your Groove On is all about – it’s about finding a rhythm for the “stuff” that works for you. Then you can look at your time and see if you want to add things, take things away, or spend time just being.
GYGO is a seven-step book that grew out of a four-part blog series and really, grew out of 2-ish years of my life and just figuring out a non-system system that worked for me.
And when I learn something, I like to share it with my friends. So I’m sharing it with you.
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-Leah
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