My Thermometer is Hiding
We are officially two weeks into 2019 and I wanted to do a quick check-in on how my resolutions/themes are going for the year.
Not great.
Ok, thanks, check in done! Have a great week.
Right.
Unsurprisingly to me, I’m starting to fall into my typical patterns heading into this 3rd week of the year. As per usual, I started out all ready to go and excited about the new year and new possibilities. Then, well, life.
As I described in my 2019 planning post, I’m trying to focus more on themes this year than on making too many specific goals that I can easily fail. My focus has been on getting my workouts in, improving my personal development, finding a repeatably process I can stick to for keeping my home clean, decluttering my whole house by the end of the year, and using a planning system to accomplish my goals.
I have completed two weeks of one of my favorite workout programs, and I’m having no issues there, which is no surprise to me because I really enjoy working out. The status of my personal development improvement using The Miracle Morning is similar as I’m easily able to get up in the morning and get my personal development in.
However, the weekly cleaning tasks, decluttering, and trying to plan and execute on my personal projects have not been going well. The reasons behind my lack of execution for those three items on my list are easy to uncover.
Working out and personal development are done in the morning, when I am by myself, and when I have complete control over when I wake up and how long I spend on them. If my workout is going to be longer, I get up earlier. If I want to get in additional reading, I adjust the other items in my personal development.
When it comes to cleaning the house, or decluttering, or working on personal projects, these are tasks I have scheduled to complete after work. Once I get home from work, and after we’ve done sports practice, dinners, showers, school work, reading, I finally have a moment to look at the daily cleaning task or decluttering project, and honestly, I more often than not have zero time to accomplish them…and less than zero desire or motivation (or energy).
Last night, I really had an “I’m super-overwhelmed” moment over how little I accomplished over the week and weekend. I had a two hour window between a birthday party we had taken our kids to and when dinner was to be prepped. It would have been a perfect window to catch up on decluttering, or do some clean up. Instead, I spent most of the time looking for a thermometer because I wanted to try this technique in this book I’m reading to find out what chronotype I am. Another discussion for another day, but I found myself looking for this item that we really should have on hand and easy to access given we have kids that like to share germs. I could not find it. I checked all our bathrooms, the junk drawers, the random boxes we have all over from our move, nothing. Even worse, I know we have more than one. I hit a low point thinking about how I cannot even have an organized-enough house that I can find a thermometer, and about how I will probably end up buying one and then finding two of them later. I know I need to give myself some grace, I just don’t know where to find that either.
I will say that I am doing better at actually making an attempt at the tasks. My hope is that by keeping these goals/themes on my radar, I can make tiny adjustments and course-correct before I totally derail.
That being said, this week I’m going to focus more on getting the weekly cleaning tasks done at some point (even if it’s not on the exact day that the Clean Mama system maps out) and I’m hoping to do some decluttering catch up. Also, I really hope to find a thermometer.
How are your New Year’s Resolutions treating you? I hope you’re knocking them out! And if you’re not, give yourself some grace, and focus on the week ahead!
