Daiy Planning: Part 2, Setting Your Priorities

Most of us struggle because we are trying to do too much and please too many people.  As a mom I know I do, especially at work.   It has taken a few years to learn that to say "No" to what is not going to work for my family even if it seems like a risk or it is going to make someone unhappy.  For instance, a few weeks ago I was approached by a well know high end Medical Spa looking for an office manager.  They wanted someone to start late this month and even though I am pregnant and due in 7 weeks they were ok with that.  Pretty cool huh?  Well kinda.  The office hours are 8am-6:30pm Tuesday through Friday and Saturday 9am-4pm.  This would mean that I would drop my daughter off at school everyday at 7:30am, I would have to hire a sitter to pick her up from school and watch her until I got home.  Even though the spa closes at 6:30pm I would have to wait until all appointments were done and they close up. Meaning I probably would not leave until close to 7:30pm putting me home close to 8pm. Just in time to put her to bed.  Then Saturday I would have to leave her with my parents or hire a sitter to stay with her all day.  I had to stop and think for a moment.  I was tempted my the money and the position.


However my top 3 priorities are my as follows:
1.  Being a present for my family both as a mom and wife.
2.  Taking care of my health and the health if my family by providing them with the best nutrition possible and the knowledge for them to do it themselves.
3.  To provide a financially secure environment for my family and teach them financial responsibility.

Daily Planning: Part 1

As I was reading my morning Devotional I was inspired to write this. So often as women, moms, wives, etc we find ourselves overwhelmed and flitting from task to task never really accomplishing anything or when we do we find that we have done a poor job. Even more often we find that at the end of the day we have been rushing to accomplish so much, but yet accomplish so little leaving very little time for ourselves. We find ourselves exhausted, burned out and well, crabby.  We want time for ourselves but we put pressure on ourselves to be perfect as well.   We are left frustrated and often complain.  The irony is, we are the only ones who can change our circumstances.  We can complain all we want to our husbands, sisters, mothers, girlfriends, God, etc, but they can not do anything about it, only we can.