Definitely listening to podcasts while doing household tasks helps. I love the idea of doing as many things as possible while a song plays, I'm going to see if this idea works for my daughter. I live in a household where none of us can consistently cope with keeping the kitchen tidy, so definitely need ideas like this!! Thanks
I'd love to know how it goes! It's amazing sometimes how much of a difference a few minutes can make. Thank you for your comment -- I had forgotten about this tip myself and we've been having a hard time keeping the house tidy since school started back up.
Definitely going to be referring back to this piece often as I try to navigate what works best for my brain! I find the self compassion part so difficult. For so long, I just had really high expectations for myself that I enforced negatively, and of course now I am very burnt out! I'm currently trying to experiment with a pace of work/just getting stuff done in general that just leaves me feeling good at the end of the week instead of totally spent!
I feel that so much! It takes so much effort and intention to let go of those high expectations and to unlearn all of those behaviors that kept us afloat but also aren't working long term. Doing that work alone takes energy!
I'm curious, what kind of "good" is that that you're wanting to feel at the end of the week?
Definitely listening to podcasts while doing household tasks helps. I love the idea of doing as many things as possible while a song plays, I'm going to see if this idea works for my daughter. I live in a household where none of us can consistently cope with keeping the kitchen tidy, so definitely need ideas like this!! Thanks
I'd love to know how it goes! It's amazing sometimes how much of a difference a few minutes can make. Thank you for your comment -- I had forgotten about this tip myself and we've been having a hard time keeping the house tidy since school started back up.
Definitely going to be referring back to this piece often as I try to navigate what works best for my brain! I find the self compassion part so difficult. For so long, I just had really high expectations for myself that I enforced negatively, and of course now I am very burnt out! I'm currently trying to experiment with a pace of work/just getting stuff done in general that just leaves me feeling good at the end of the week instead of totally spent!
I feel that so much! It takes so much effort and intention to let go of those high expectations and to unlearn all of those behaviors that kept us afloat but also aren't working long term. Doing that work alone takes energy!
I'm curious, what kind of "good" is that that you're wanting to feel at the end of the week?
And how do you remember to pace yourself?