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| Working mom, celebrating life at the beach! |
If you are a working mom who thinks the ish is easy and you have no worries, stop reading. However, if you are like me and need some inspiration, stay with me.
Being a mom is a grind. However, there is glory in it. It's kind of like running a marathon right the difference though is instead of crossing the finish line in one day after months of training. It's like you're training every day for a really long time. Some say, it's 18 years period. However, we all know it is longer than that especially if you have multiple children. And so it is really important--vitally important, for your own sanity and well being--that you find daily touchpoint victories.
Create Daily Victories to Preserve Your Sanity
These victories can make you feel like you crossed the finish line every day. If you don't have these daily victories, all you will have, for multiple days-- and days turn in to weeks, and weeks turn into months, and months turn into years-- is the grind. And if all you have is the grind, then you will become frustrated and that frustration can build and become despondency, depression, and a series of other unpleasant emotions that will remain unsaid. And if you're married, the lack of daily victories will likely lead to a quick divorce because if you feel like you're losing every day, the easiest thing to change is your marital status.
So, if you want to avoid feeling like a loser. If want to avoid feeling overwhelmed. And, if you want to try to stay married. Do yourself a favor, Mama, and figure out what you need to do every day to feel like you won.
Examples of Daily Victories
I used to be in sales and there was an expression, "Always stay closing." As a working mom, let your mantra be, "Always stay winning!"
Like do you need to take a walk around the block, just so that you have some time by yourself that is entirely yours where you don't have to worry about being someone's mother or someone's wife? Do you need to talk to a friend on the phone, so that you can have uninterrupted time having a conversation even if it's only 10 or 15 minutes? Do you need to enjoy a glass of wine in your closet, after the kids go to bed, and your husband is watching television or whatever else he has found to do with his "free" time. (Don't get me started on that!) Do you just need five minutes to breathe deeply without distraction? Identify what you need and what you need to do to achieve it. And, do it!
Seriously, just figure out what you need to do to feel like a winner every day. 'Cause I'm telling you, even if you're not feeling it, you are totally killing it. You just have to give yourself permission to celebrate.
If You Don't Get to Do Any of the Things, Celebrate Anyhow
And if somehow you're unable to do any of the things. Remember, you brushed your teeth, your kids are safe, and you managed to get through the day without getting fired. Celebrate that ish!!!
"All I do is win, win, win, no matter what!!!"
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