How to Stop Drowning in the Juggling Act | Sarah A.| Ep296

And so let's jump in here kind of to talk about organizing the logistics of life.

What the heck does that actually mean? Yeah.

Well, I think it starts.

I mean, I mean, first of all, I think that there's so many things that come at us as parents every day, whether it's, you know, the sports schedule or what, you know, permission slip you have to sign at school and all these things.

And how do you even keep up with it? You know, how do you keep the all of what I call the logistics of life moving in the right direction? And so one of the things I have kind of what I would say is some very you know, straightforward tips that I think are a starting point.

And one of them I refer to is the Sunday list.

And it sounds like a pretty basic thing, but I think when you have those things that come up in a given week, putting them down on a list so you don't necessarily feel like you have to address that moment, but block some time out on a Sunday and crash through that list of things.

So whether it's the birthday present you have to buy or you know, the, the permission slip you have to sign, if it's not a timely thing that you have to do that day, I think we, as parents, a lot of times feel like we have to do it instantly.

And it's like, no, is this something that you really have to do now? Or can you put it, you know, you know, on a list, write it down.

So I always joke that that's your permission to forget once you write it down and then you can come back to it.

And I say on Sundays, cause that's the day that I always use to kind of get organized for the week.

And say, what do I need to do to kind of get through those things that came up through the week and also prepare for the next week? So that's just an example of kind of managing logistics of life.

But it's one that I actually think has over the years and I actually still have a Sunday list, even though Grace is out of the house, because it's allowed me to not feel like I have to get it all done in any given day.

Yeah.

And I think that a great benefit of having something like a Sunday list is just being able to, to not, to know a yes, like you said, no, you don't have to get it all done in one day, but also knowing like there's, there's time for this later and it's going to get done and not everything has to be done right now.

This very moment, because that can be overwhelming in itself.

Right.

Absolutely.

And I think we always feel like we feel like we need to, you know, jump on that thing right when it shows up or crosses comes in your email or your kids come and say, Mom, Dad, I need this right now.

It's like, well, let me let me take a look.

Let me see if this is a right now thing or whether we can handle it today, tomorrow or, you know, on the Sunday.

But it is really just a matter of kind of stopping from it and figuring out when it needs to be addressed.

Yeah, no, a hundred percent.

And I'm, I'm guilty of that hardcore to where I'll have, you know, two screens up and I'll have teams on one, but I'll have three projects going on in another.

So I'm working on like three different things at one, one message comes in and then an email comes in and now I'm totally off base on what the heck I was supposed to be doing.