Essence, they say, right?
Ugh.
Seems these days we have an apparent and total lack of it.
I just finished inputting nearly fifteen 3-hour long classes which Cliff must attend as a part of his WCRS training, in a span of about nine weeks. Nine weeks which also happen to include three weeks of travel (not consecutively) and about two weeks of some sort of guest (be it friend or family) in-town.
Thank goodness we got back in the habit of calendaring our life together.
No really, we do that. As much as I hated the idea of it initially (somewhere there's a free spirit in me), it really does build a basic construct for us upon which to lay out our hopes, expectations, plans, and such for the week (or multiples) ahead while not marrying ourselves to the rigor of an over-scheduled life.
In my own day-to-day, especially working from home, where every avenue blends together rather chaotically with no parameters - those avenues being the domestic and the business, I rely on my calendar to set a tone for what is to be accomplished - even if it's free-time to do nothing at all (which is rare). And Cliff is the same in his own work, scheduling his calls and meetings and additional crazy-busy-ness that is his job.
So why not a shared calendar, right? One that either of us can access at any time and know what the deal is. I know there are plenty of people light years ahead of us in this category - at once we were too, but then life gets so busy it gets in the way of even taking that time to make time.
Like I shared the other night in women's group, intention requires forethought - even if it's a vague idea of what you can, want, and need to do as individuals and as spouses (and eventually as a family!). For us, the calendar has been a useful tool for that.
Now if I could just get a phone that I could pull that information from...
Ugh.
Seems these days we have an apparent and total lack of it.
I just finished inputting nearly fifteen 3-hour long classes which Cliff must attend as a part of his WCRS training, in a span of about nine weeks. Nine weeks which also happen to include three weeks of travel (not consecutively) and about two weeks of some sort of guest (be it friend or family) in-town.
Thank goodness we got back in the habit of calendaring our life together.
No really, we do that. As much as I hated the idea of it initially (somewhere there's a free spirit in me), it really does build a basic construct for us upon which to lay out our hopes, expectations, plans, and such for the week (or multiples) ahead while not marrying ourselves to the rigor of an over-scheduled life.
In my own day-to-day, especially working from home, where every avenue blends together rather chaotically with no parameters - those avenues being the domestic and the business, I rely on my calendar to set a tone for what is to be accomplished - even if it's free-time to do nothing at all (which is rare). And Cliff is the same in his own work, scheduling his calls and meetings and additional crazy-busy-ness that is his job.
So why not a shared calendar, right? One that either of us can access at any time and know what the deal is. I know there are plenty of people light years ahead of us in this category - at once we were too, but then life gets so busy it gets in the way of even taking that time to make time.
Like I shared the other night in women's group, intention requires forethought - even if it's a vague idea of what you can, want, and need to do as individuals and as spouses (and eventually as a family!). For us, the calendar has been a useful tool for that.
Now if I could just get a phone that I could pull that information from...
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