Sometimes either on my blog or in my life people ask how we do it all.
Renovate, own a business, study, work, raise children etc.
I'm not special, nor even particularly good with time management.
This is what it often looks like....
Working on an assignment, late at night with a small child sleeping next to me.
It means not watching T.V. at night when my husband is.
It means saying "no" to things for the sake of sleep and sanity.
It means hobbies get put on hold. It sometimes means an excess dose of Mama guilt.
But for me, I think it comes down to if I really, truly want to do something or to learn something I will work out a way to make room for it. It might take time for that space to be found in my life. I might have to wait for the next season....It might mean putting something down so I can pick something up. Sometimes an old season needs to end for a new season to begin.
But there are many things in life that don’t take that much time to try. Like making laundry liquid, or learning how to make soap. Meal planning and shopping for simple but nourishing family dinners. Buying a few big pots and planting a herb garden. These things are all small and affordable jobs in the scheme of things. All too often we simply make them to be bigger than they are in our minds, and we procrastinate.
We might get disheartened because our work doesn't look like the pictures we see on Pinterest. But that’s ok. It doesn’t have too! We are only able to create the lives we want by firstly making the time to change, having the courage to actually do it, and the persistence to keep going when it gets challenging.
But when we make these small changes, they add up. Slowly and steadily. Eventually if we make enough of these changes we will look back, and our lives will look dramatically different. As we learn new skills our confidence grows, as we let go of what weighs us down we grow happier. Suddenly our life looks in line with the things we value. It looks like us. It reflects our own values, dreams and personal story.
Knitting is my new hobby. I have always wanted to be able to knit beautiful jumpers, to read a pattern. Today, I’m completely hopeless at it. My tension is uneven; I have no idea how to unpick it to mend an error. But I will persist and plod along. Because I reckon all good things in life take time and effort. There is beauty in a slow journey. But the joy when you produce something that resembles your goal? Nothing beats that feeling!
Much love,
Emma
xx
I'm not special, nor even particularly good with time management.
This is what it often looks like....
Working on an assignment, late at night with a small child sleeping next to me.
It means not watching T.V. at night when my husband is.
It means saying "no" to things for the sake of sleep and sanity.
It means hobbies get put on hold. It sometimes means an excess dose of Mama guilt.
But for me, I think it comes down to if I really, truly want to do something or to learn something I will work out a way to make room for it. It might take time for that space to be found in my life. I might have to wait for the next season....It might mean putting something down so I can pick something up. Sometimes an old season needs to end for a new season to begin.
But there are many things in life that don’t take that much time to try. Like making laundry liquid, or learning how to make soap. Meal planning and shopping for simple but nourishing family dinners. Buying a few big pots and planting a herb garden. These things are all small and affordable jobs in the scheme of things. All too often we simply make them to be bigger than they are in our minds, and we procrastinate.
We might get disheartened because our work doesn't look like the pictures we see on Pinterest. But that’s ok. It doesn’t have too! We are only able to create the lives we want by firstly making the time to change, having the courage to actually do it, and the persistence to keep going when it gets challenging.
But when we make these small changes, they add up. Slowly and steadily. Eventually if we make enough of these changes we will look back, and our lives will look dramatically different. As we learn new skills our confidence grows, as we let go of what weighs us down we grow happier. Suddenly our life looks in line with the things we value. It looks like us. It reflects our own values, dreams and personal story.
Knitting is my new hobby. I have always wanted to be able to knit beautiful jumpers, to read a pattern. Today, I’m completely hopeless at it. My tension is uneven; I have no idea how to unpick it to mend an error. But I will persist and plod along. Because I reckon all good things in life take time and effort. There is beauty in a slow journey. But the joy when you produce something that resembles your goal? Nothing beats that feeling!
Much love,
Emma
xx
