Changes I Am Making In 2021
2020 taught me a lot. It probably taught all of us a lot! Because of all those learning experiences I am making some changes in 2021. I thought I would share because, while most of these are not big changes, I think they can make big impacts in my life.
- Face my feelings of being overwhelmed. Baby steps. One thing at a time. When I feel overwhelmed I tend to fall down a shame spiral. Instead of worrying about everything at once (which is part of my anxiety disorder) I will tackle one thing at a time. For example, instead of feeling like my whole house is a mess and I need to clean the whole thing and then I don’t even know where to start, I will focus on one attainable goal at a time, like dust all the bedroom furniture or clean the kitchen. It is much easier to work through smaller goals than trying to tackle one overwhelming goal.
- Daily one line journal. This takes minutes each day, but it gives a chance to look back in the future. It doesn’t always have to be a gratitude journal because acknowledging feelings of sadness and worry are important too. I write in it right before bed. Here is the one I got off Amazon.
- Less TV, more reading. I pretty much made this change the last half of 2020, but I upped my goal for 2021. I set a goal to read 100 books in 2021. I find reading a book brings me far more joy than watching TV. Many people ask how I have time to read so much, but if I take that hour at night I use to spend watching TV and read instead it is amazing how many books I can finish.
- Try to loosen my grip on being a control freak. I get major anxiety when I don’t feel like things are being done right and I am a complete control freak. I totally admit it. When situations like that arise I am consciously telling myself to let it go. It will all be ok and not everything has to be done MY way to be the right way. I am working on being ok with not everything feeling completely controlled.
- Schedule out specific time for work. Instead of working whenever I can fit it in with everything else going on with my family, I decided to block out specific time to do my work and make sure I schedule other things around that instead of the other way around.
- I will make myself a priority. I think many moms fall victim to this. This doesn’t mean my family isn’t a priority, it just means that I also deserve to be a priority. There were many days where I just wanted to go for a 30 minute run, but everyone in my family needed help with something, laundry needed to be done, food needed to be cooked, my daughter needed to go to dance and before I knew it my run didn’t take place, but I did all the things for everyone else. You know what I realized? The laundry can wait because I am priority. The laundry will get done and if it is 12 hours later, it won’t be the end of us.
- Unplug more. I feel like this is so cliché, but it is also so needed. Instead of my phone being the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing I look at at night, I will read, write, or just relax at night instead and in the morning I will do my daily morning routine before looking at my phone.
- Reanimate. I chose this for my word of the year because I feel like 2020 kind of sucked the life out of me. I was going through the day to day motions, but with very little life put in each day. I want to breath life back into my daily routine. I think we can all use a little reanimation this year.
What are some fo the changes you are making this year?
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