motivation
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Staycation Ideas for Adults
I’ve always spent the last few weeks of summer doing everything in my power to set my daughter up for a successful transition back to school – you can read all of my strategies in these posts: While all of this attention and focus is definitely helpful for my daughter, it leaves me feeling a little burnt out. That makes it even harder for me to get back into my own work routine. I spent much of last fall really fighting to get systems and schedules in place for myself. This year, instead of fighting the burnout I decided to embrace it. The first full week that my daughter was…
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Strategies for getting excited about work again
I love my job. I tell people this all the time because it really is the truth – but that doesn’t mean that I always want to be at work. There are definitely days when I’m irritated, days when I would love to stay in bed and hibernate, and days when I feel completely unproductive. This is normal, we all feel this way occasionally, but if you’re like me you can’t always take a vacation just because you want one. When I’m feeling like I need some new energy, when I really need to re-focus and find that excitement again, there are a couple of strategies that always work for…
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Staycation Ideas for Adults
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Finding the motivating factor
I just came home from the dentist, I had to get three cavities filled. Yuck. To be honest, the actual procedure doesn’t bother me, I’ve had enough dental work done in my life that I’m used to the noise and the numbness, it’s the price tag that really hurts. I’ve been told for the last 20 years that I need to be flossing every day, and I finally learned the lesson – because I finally figured out my motivation. The cavities don’t motivate me, but the money definitely does. So what does this have to do with preschool… I promise, it actually flows quite well! This is why it is…
