FACT: You have 168 hours a week. 24 hours a day. No more.
- How many hours do you work your 9-5 job or business?
- How many hours do you spend doing work around your home?
- How many hours errands (that grocery shopping, pharmacy hours)
- Now at the time of the podcast - it’s holiday season - so how many hours are you shopping, wrapping, baking, decorating or doing other activities of the season.
- How many hours do you spend caregiving
- Then your time and hopefully it’s self-care your me time
Have you said any of these words out loud or to yourself
- I am so tired?
- I can barely make it through the day.
- I would give anything to take a nap.
- I can’t remember the last time I had a goodnight sleep.
- Ijust keep drinking caffeine hoping to stay awake.
Here was a schedule I had back in 2017
- It’s Monday
- Get up at 5:30 am
- Household chores (throw in a load of wash, tidy up around the house and water the flowers outside)
- Pack my lunch and work laptop and supplies)
- Journal and 30 minutes of working my business
- Then shower and quick breakfast
- 7:00 - drive my spouse to his day 1 of 3 chemotherapies and doctor appointments
- Lab work, doctor’s appt and then sit by the chemotherapy chair until 3pm
- I work my 9-5 job during that time
- 3pm drive spouse home. He is not feeling well. So get him in his lazy boy with crackers, jello and a warm blanket.
- Go to my home office and finish 9-5 job.
- 5pm: fold that laundry, make dinner, dishes - spouse isn’t hungry and goes to bed.
- 7-10 pm: work on my business
- 10pm check on spouse and get ready for bed
- 11pm spouse is up not feeling well - get him some Tylenol
- Can’t sleep due to worry - get up and down checking on spouse
The next day the same.
Here’s another day in 2018
- 7am - decided to sleep in later now since I am so tired from last...