I had today off of my day job.
Days like today are my FAVOURITE because I don’t have to work!
Often when I find out I’m not working on a weekday I’ll sit down with my planner the night before and plan out ALL the things I’m going to get done that I never get done because…honestly, who’s got time for all of that?
One of my favourite things about the planner I use is that there’s a space at the top of each day for “today’s focus,” and so when I have a day like today and there are a hundred bazillion things I want to get done, I pick ONE, the one most important thing that I want to get done, that if that ONE thing gets done and NONE of the other hundred bazillion things then I can call the day a success.
I love this method.
Today, I’m exhausted. Most weeks Daddy is out of the house one night of the week and this night becomes “Mommy Sleepover” night. There should be plenty of room in a king-sized bed for a 5 year old, a 10 year old, and one of their adults, you would think. But holy cow… if every Mommy Sleepover night was like last night then this crazy little tradition of ours would never have lasted the first week!!
So, yeah. I’m tired.
I wasn’t wholly unproductive today. I got lots of stuff done, I really did. But I did NOT tackle the fridge full of dirt and mess and rotting food. I did NOT get to the bank to close that old business bank account I’m not using. I did NOT get to Costco to grab those delicious Kirkland-brand protein bars I ran out of at lunchtime today…
BUT, none of those things were today’s FOCUS. Today’s focus, honestly, was working on this blog! And while I may not have used every single moment of my solitude to its maximum potential today I DID make some more networking connections, learned a bit more about affiliate marketing and how that all works, learned a little about optimizing Pinterest…
And on an exhaustion-heavy day like today where the depressive fog is pressing in and just SCREAMING at me to stay smelly, in my pyjamas, on the couch, binge-watching Netflix, getting that ONE single thing done can be a major victory. Not because it’s a huge thing, but because setting the goal for the day and then ACHIEVING it, that little win feels good. And feeling good when you’re fighting your inner daemons, well, that’s what we call a major win.
All of that other stuff will get done. Some of it will be on days when I can squeeze it in the cracks between everything else I’m juggling. Some of it will be done by other members of the household because, that’s how that works. But for all the stuff I didn’t do today, today is a huge and roaring success. Because I got today’s focus DONE.