I’m so sorry that you have such rough years with two unrelated surgeries, Cecelia! That’s hard stuff. I hope that your path forward will be more smooth as you step back into doing more things. Give yourself all the grace you need! I love the things you chose to do: sending cards and dusting furniture; I need to do both of those as well. 🙂

I’d guess most of us are guilty of trying to do too many things at one time at various stages of life anyway. Maybe we have too much FOMO and just don’t want to miss anything. But the reality is we DO miss out when we have to multitask through life. It’s a learning curve for me!

I hear you, Lyndsey. Sometimes I think I just don’t have time to slow down. Finding the right speed of life is a moving target for me.

It’s hard to break that mindset of more, more, more, and faster, faster, faster. But it’s so detrimental to our mental and emotional health. I keep having to work on it myself, Ashley. Hope you’re doing well, friend!

I’m glad you’re so aware of where your attention needs to lie with two young kids, Elena. Sometimes they give you no choice! lol. But other times it’s tempting to scroll on a phone or even get more housework done instead of keeping your eyes on the prize of their tender years that pass so quickly.

It’s very hard for me to single-task, even though all the experts say it’s really more efficient. Sigh. I guess sometimes I prefer variety over efficiency, which I suppose is totally fine too. 🙂

Glad you felt better after a day of rest, Jean. That is always clear confirmation that you did the right thing. I wish everything gave us such clear signals so quickly. I think I’d slow down more if I got quicker affirmation–ironic, yes? 🙂

Yes, it is hard to let go of doing when it feels so productive. But I’m thankful that being is just as worthy, even if we can’t always see “results” from it.

I know; there are times I want to push the “speed” button on a person in real life. lol. Glad that isn’t possible! (yet anyway; who knows about the future)