Mom vs. Career
Exercise vs. Sleep
Play with the kiddo vs. Make dinner
Go out vs. Stay at home
Chocolate Strawberry vs. Truffle
Covered with Grand Cru Caraibe Bar with hazelnuts by Valrhona
Why can’t I have it all? I like to pretend that I can and about once per year I am reminded that I can have most of it. My life and all of my dreams build and then explode with a seismic boom. That happened last Friday. I forget that my plate is only so big and I just keep trying to balance things on top of each other. The benefit of an event like this is that it forces me to sit back and re-evaluate. It forces me to put my true priorities first. While I usually do not enjoy this occurrence, I feel that it is a good annual event which always preceeds a climax. At least that is how I try to look at it. Good things to come!
Does this happen to anyone else? Or can anyone tell me how to fit more hours in a day? 
ALL the time. I am going through something like what you describe right now. I have been so busy with all my blogging activities that I haven’t taken to time to sort it all out. I need to before I crash and burn. Sigh, so much I want to do and so little time to do it in.
I just keep telling myself that as long as I get a little closer to my goal every day, then it is fine. But then sometimes things need to be done. But we keep trying.
Thanks for your help today!
The trick is in combining them. You have to exercise while eating a chocolate truffle, playing with the kiddo, and cooking dinner. When you find the secret to doing this, please let me know ASAP. I need help.
LOL. Love your comment! I am the queen of multitasking… but I will let you know if I ever manage that! Have a good day!
What a terrific way to look at the plate overload syndrome. My plate’s been tipping for quite some time now, and soon it’ll be time to re-evaluate.
Good luck! Why don’t we ever learn?
I’m wondering the same thing! The most difficult to balance among them all for me is being a Mom vs Career. If I could have it my way, I’d be a stay-at-home Mom, a home-maker. I want to make a home for my family and not worry about anything else. But since we are still a young couple, I cannot put the weight of being the sole breadwinner of the family to my husband.
But for me, given another situation, I cannot care any less with having a career if I can be a full-time Mom.
I think I would ultimately enjoy both. But I have a great job that I enjoy too… and it is not about making a bunch of money here- not in Utah.
Although, we do need it for financial reasons. Have a good day!
I struggle with taking on too much from time to time as well. My biggest problem is that there is either nothing going on or too much I have not learned to find a middle ground at this point in my life. Something I am working on fixing!
Aren’t we all?
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Happens to me. Just today I woke up thinking of how I’m going to deal with my one ywar old all day while I try to work from home. Try being the operative word here. I have no idea on how to manage this and cook and clean and go outside with him.
LOL, that is pretty much the same thinking I use- sure, I will ‘try’.
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I think the best way to fit more hours into the day is to take a nap
I need to practice this. On the rare occasion that I get to take a nap, the balancing comes so much easier.
Oh, I love naps… I will take one of those for sure!
Filter, filter, filter…. I’m still working at it! We’re women and we always extend ourselves beyond what’s possible… at least I do. I’m getting better as I age. Hope next week is better!:)
Thanks Jan. I am pretty done with being sick… it has been awhile since I have been sick this long. Thanks for coming by!
Oh yes definitely! Although I think having a baby and toddler is like training for a race with weights on–once they’re gone (or grown up in this case) things will feel so easy and I’ll feel like I can fly!
)) (hopefully!)
I hope so too… because we are in the toddler stage right now.
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I used to go gung-ho, but then I got ill and now I live my life from a wheelchair. I love having a ready made lap for my kids to cuddle in and read stories. This changed forced me to focus only on the important things. I guess I needed a slap on the head to get back to the basics, now I love the way my time is under control. (But I’d sure like to get out of this silly contraption!)
My other friend I spoke of is Muffy Davis. She is in a wheel chair. But she has also done bungee jumping, ski racing, cycling (just won a couple of golds at the olympics). While not everyone is an Olympic athlete like here I love here message of ‘climb to the top of your own gold medal podium’ and that is what counts.