I don’t know about you, but trying to maintain healthy boundaries and balance in my life is an on-going work. As a working wife and mom who is also active in ministry, there are a lot of things that are constantly clamoring for my attention. Here are some of the keys strategies that I have used to create a more balanced, healthier and joy-filled life.
So often we start off the new year with resolutions about what we’re going to do new this year. Most of it involves trying to do the “anti” of much of what we did wrong in the year before. I thought I would take a different approach and begin the year reflecting on what I did right in 2013 so that I could be sure to bring those successes and celebrations into 2014.
Procrastination can be a vicious and self-defeating cycle. Often times, the more we procrastinate, the worse we feel about ourselves and the worse we feel about ourselves, the more we procrastinate. The good news is, we can change! Procrastination is just the result of a particular pattern of behavior. Every one of us has the power to be more productive and to reduce the amount of time we spend “off task” throughout the day by learning and implementing new systems and new patterns of behavior.
