30 DAYS OF SELF-COMPASSION | Day 13 Activity

This is number five of the nine (9) activities you will access this month :)
This week we are taking steps towards setting boundaries between your work and your life - Because you are a person deserving of boundaries.
Yesterday, you established what your current top 3 life priorities are.
Today we are setting non-negotiables - Activities you must do every week that align with your priorities.
ACTIVITY 5: YOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES

• Rewrite your 3 life priorities from yesterday's reflection. 

1. My Family

2. My Work

3. My Health- not only physical but mental. Mental health is really important but where I struggle the most. A piece of this priority is fostering my creativity.

• Look at priority 1: What is something you need to do daily or weekly to feel fulfilled in priority 1?
• Take 5-10 minutes per day to sit and talk with the girls and old Wilson one to one
• Less tv
• Dinner around the table (Oh, also making dinner at home)
• Talk about our days- high/low
• Weekends should be less lazy- it's so hard because I'm so drained, but it really bothers me that even playing a board game is too much mental energy. We need to spend time doing something together- going out somewhere, playing a game, something, anything. 
• Look at priority 2: What is something you need to do daily or weekly to feel fulfilled in priority 2?
• Keep work at school- literal work. This is hard because I often have IEPs to review, emails to send, etc. Which should lead to:
• Keeping on a schedule at school. Not allowing every little interruption to take up all of my time. Setting specific time frames and STICKING TO THEM.
• This includes ideas for helping kids (visuals, worksheets, etc) and the administrative side of things (IEPs, schedules, meetings)
• Look at priority 3: What is something you need to do daily or weekly to feel fulfilled in priority 3?
• Stick to my diet!
• Keep tracking my food
• Cook dinner at home (or have Andy cook at home)
• Prep meals for school!!!
• Eat dinner around the table 
• Start doing Yoga or walking
• Spend time doing what I find creative and fulfilling at home
• lettering
• drawing
• The hard part: Figure out something to do outside the house that will give my brain piece of mind
• mani/pedi?
• time with sisters?
• massages?
• hair?

Those activities you specify should be considered non-negotiables - because, remember, they help you feel fulfilled in the areas of life most important to you. 

PRACTICE:
Schedule your non-negotiables in your calendar. Treat them as an important appointment that needs to be kept . They take precedence. Because without them, what is work really for?

At this point, I'm going to stop blogging. I'm going to ignore honor but move past the anxiety I have being so behind on this self-care process (isn't it Ironic? Don't you think?)and get out the 6th!!!! planner I've bought this year (have an issue, I'm ok with it) and schedule my priorities RIGHT NOW.