Take a look, your reality check is on the floor!
I was talking to my good friend Cyndee Haydon just the other day when we realized our conversations were very similar in the fact that we will work like mad to bring our clients the VERY best (and I mean the best of the best), and at the end of the day... if someone did not value our time, you stop and think (we sure did)...
- Did I take precious time away from my children that are begging for my attention?
- My children are so small now and they WANT me now, it's only a few more years until they are teenagers and don't even want to be around mom and dad, it will be all about their friends.
- Time is something that can be so easilylost, there's never enough money to make time, but there's always time to make money. TIME IS IRREPLACEABLE!
- Are the clients I am working with right now, valuing me as much as my family does? Do they know exactly when my family time is and do they respect that?
- Am I treating my family as good as I do my clients?
If you are a work-a-holic, recovering perfectionist, like me, then you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.
When I was responding to an email that a client sent me, well after midnight, I looked over and on the floor of my home office and there was my oldest daughter sleeping on the floor. She had fallen asleep on my floor, just waiting for me to help her get to sleep!
What did I realize from this? Well this was only days before my husband Chris and I celebrated our 10th year wedding anniversary, and it all made me think... Time passes by SO quickly, and my children, myself, and even you... are not getting any younger! So it impacted me to make some major changes, timing is everything right?
Well, starting next school year, Nicholas will be in Kindergarten, and Madalynne with be in 3rd grade, and I am now officially the PTA President for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year for Pineview Elementary. Now that I have made a commitment to many people... oh yeah just everyone at the whole school to do my best (in a position I know nothing about) and schedule even more quality time with my kids.
Adaleesa is pre-enrolled for the school year in the same preschool that Nick attends now, and she starts in August. So this summer is going to be a fun summer, I am going to stop on my lunch and swim with them for 15-30 minutes and play with them, take them to the park on Friday afternoons, schedule them just like I would an appointment, Make sure that clients I work with and give EVERYTHING I have to give will respect my boundaries, accept my advise, and give with their heart, as much as I give with mine, and last but not least make my kids as important as everything else in my life!
- What has been a few of your most recent reality checks?
- What would have you changed in the recent months, years?
I would love to hear your thoughts, similar stories, YOUR reality check, and ANYTHING you have to offer that you have found extremely useful with regards to TIME MANAGEMENT.
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Katrina, nice ThemThem to your family, it sounds like you found the answer. Thanks for sharing with the Group.
Duane