See if this rings even a little bit true:
5:05 am – Turn off the snooze and think about staying in the bed, but instead get up.
5:10am – Check email, grab yoga time
6:00am – Run
6:45am – Try to write press release before kid number one gets up; check email
again
7:00am – both kids up – make breakfast, brush hair, assemble lunches, get kids’ bag
together, get my bag together; wake up spouse. MAYBE play time with kids and
read one book together
8:00am – check email again, put kids in car, kiss spouse good bye, schedule meeting
for fundraiser I’m chairing, Oops – didn’t get to my hair/makeup, AGAIN, so hair in
ponytail, grab lipstick from my bag. That will be it for the day.
8:30am – Drop kid number one off at school
8:45am – Drop kid number two off at school #2
9:00am – Off to meeting
10:00am – Work/Write/Tweet….
2:00pm – pick up child #2 at school; 2:30 pick up child #1 at school
1:00 - 5:00pm - walk to bookstores to read and chat with our favorite staff there; outdoor play at home with ball, art class, soccer, yoga, sidewalk chalk and of course, bubbles
5:00pm - check fridge and list for what we are cooking for dinner; start prepping;
girls get down time with books and coloring and puzzles
6:00pm - family cooks dinner together and eats; bath time, more books, and finally
bed for the little ones
8:30pm - hop on laptop for 2 - 3 hours of solid work without interruption.
11:00pm - read (hopefully more than 2 pages before passing out.)
Rinse. Repeat.
Days, weeks and months can fly by while you quickly get lost in daily grind without getting to that point of balance. This is not to say you get to just put all the chores behind you but you can build an easy yet structured way to get the balance you do desire. This is what most days looked like in my life at one time. Where scheduling kid activities, working, checking email constantly, trying to keep up with social media, and trying to have it all created ultimate chaos. And maybe occasionally, doing something (at a reasonable time) for myself slipped in to the bottom of my to do list. The irony, of course, was that I started a company to achieve work-life balance for others and flipped my own work-life balance completely out of whack. Public relations executive and author, Terrie Williams, commented that for a long period “I was last on my to-do list. “
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