photos by the amazing maria lloyd photography
last day of 2018 – holy has this year brought a lot! what a great year though. i’ll be honest, it’s far surpassed 2017. yes, 2017 brought us logan, but 2018 was the year of figuring out and feeling like i got the hang of motherhood [note: i fully realize as i say this, i am never actually going to have the hang of it — just the nature of the game! ha] but i feel like i’ve really come to enjoy motherhood, hit my stride in my career, and overall, “did more things that scared me” – my goal/resolution/strategy for 2017.
i’m looking forward to continuing to lean into my career, enjoy motherhood [and add to the crazy come may!], and bring useful content + my POV on all things mom-llennial to the blog come 2019. i’ve never really been a resolution person, because setting specific, boxed-in goals seems to just set me up for failure. instead, i think what worked in 2018 was that i had a ‘strategy’ or a guiding principle that has led me to be bolder, braver, and take more risks. for 2019, i’m treating my new year’s resolutions like a business: having an overarching strategy, and plans to hit that strategy.
my strategy for 2019:
treat my time as valuable
what does this mean? if it doesn’t add joy or value, i need to stop doing it. i need to maximize my time to make my life the most joyful.
how am i going to do this? i have thought of a couple of ways i can easily add this into my life immediately, and i’m sure more tactics will emerge as my life evolves over the course of 2019. here are a few ways i’m putting this into practice, starting today:
- grocery pickup! seriously, i used to enjoy grocery shopping as my couple hours to myself every week, but now i feel like i don’t spend enough time with my family as is. i need to cut out the tasks that take time and optimize how i complete them, starting with picking up my groceries.
- be mindful of what work i bring home. i have said it before, but i work most nights after logan goes to bed. i want to try to only work on value-added work, and not get stuck in the mindless email suck that can happen. speaking of …
- i need to figure out how to batch my time, especially around emails at work. i can get lost in the black hole of emails easily, and it’s likely not very value-add. prioritize, categorize, and batch them. looking for strategies, so send my way! this is going to get more and more important towards the end of the year as i head back to work post-maternity leave and spend chunks of my day pumping, so i have even less time to meet.
oh, and i need to actually set specific meditation goals. that’s just something i know i need to get better at, and the only way to do that is to set a specific goals for myself, since having the intention hasn’t been working [as you’ve probably noticed from some of my monthly intentions :)]
thanks for hanging out here for 2018. here’s to a happy, healthy, and time-valued 2019!
