This weekend, we have a basketball tournament, UIL regionals in computer science, senior engineering project work, a mountain of college stuff, and plans to go to TopGolf with the family of one of Little Chirp’s friends. The pace of life is returning to our pre-Covid way of life. It is bitter sweet.
Potatoe wanted a long snuggle this morning. I think he is not liking me being gone. He had a whole year of having me home nearly all of the time. Last week, I went to the office every day. This week, I went to the office 2 days. The boys and I have dined out some, and I have gone to a few social functions with friends. My sweet Potatoe seems sad. I have noticed him snuggling more with the kitties. I guess he feels like he needs a friend.
I am happy to see life returning to normal. I happy to see our local business full of people. I am extremely happy to see my friends. I am hopeful that college will be fully open in the fall for Brainy Bird’s freshman year. I am hopeful that our economy is going to be able to weather the storm of the shutdown. All that said, I do not want to return to the pace of my pre-Covid life where I was never home and always running from one thing to another.
I think the key to this is being judicious with my time. Just as I keep a food log to make myself conscious of what I eat, I am starting a time log. Where does my time go? Am I focusing my time on the things that are important to me or is my time dominated by social obligations? Am I wasting time with activities that I do not necessarily enjoy in lieu of spending time working on my book? Am I working too many hours instead of delegating tasks?
Today, I am starting a 100 day self-challenge, and one of the key components of this self-challenge is going to be to use my time wisely. I want to embrace the positive aspects of life returning to normal, without returning to the pace of my pre-Covid life. Being that the first day of this challenge is a Sunday, you can guess that 75% of my time today will be with the boys. My day is starting with a few games of Yahtzee before Little Chirp and I head over to TopGolf.
We cannot completely control the pace of life, but we can be conscious of where we spend our time, thus getting the most out of life.