Teach your kids to be resilient, responsible, and respectful by spending quality time with them daily. As every working adult (and that is all of us, even if we don't get a paycheck or have kids) knows — we have busy lives.
By SMF Marcus Osborne for GalTime.com Him: “Honey, what’s on the calendar this week? Anything?” Her: “Well, let’s see. Tuesday night – dinner with your family, Wednesday night – we’ve got our daughter’s junior high school play, Thursday night we’re supposed to have sex at nine-thirty.”
When life bumps you along into a roadblock, understanding the true nature of time will save you a boat load of trouble. Every time you are faced with outer events that repeat in cycles and patterns, you have the chance to change the course of your destiny by the response you choose to make.
Don't ever say you can't, because you can. You can always make it happen at the eleventh hour, just before the buzzer or when your back is against the wall. For most people, pressure is what pushes us through resistance, mental blocks and mediocrity. Although this is normal human behavior, it also means that you CAN do better. You CAN gain control over your time management, stress levels, perceived obstacles and excuses.
I happened to be watching Turner Classic Movies this past week awaiting an old film to start. They had a short subject on that featured Nancy Sinatra talking about Frank Sinatra, her dad. She said the most interesting thing in reference to her Dad. "Some people are just driven. They have the ambition to succeed and complete their goals or mission. It's not about ego's, it's just drive."
We all work hard on our careers, helping our friends and family, and doing all those necessary chores. Women, particularly, are very generous with giving of themselves to others, sometimes to the detriment of their own needs and desires. But we're all guilty of getting caught in routines that don't leave enough time or energy for the ones we love. We recently asked the YourTango Experts how we can find space in our busy lives for more quality time seeking love or spending time with our current relationships. Here's what they had to say:
Time management is an issue often spoken of in a business context. Executives and business leaders are constantly looking for ways to maximize their most precious commodity which happens to be time. Productivity and effectiveness are increased with an intelligent and strategic usage of time.
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Most think of time management, but I like to think of it as time mastery. When you master time instead of managing it, you create time instead being a victim to it. Once you take control of your time and use it effectively, you will eventually have all the time to do everything you want and need. I call it Whole Life Planning For Conscious Living. In whole life planning, you know:
It’s that time of year again. To buy, host, decorate and exchange; to stand in line, shuttle between families and swear like Russell Crowe when the person in front of you at Best Buy takes too long to pay for that Inception DVD with exact change. Calendars get full and tensions can run high.
When a marriage is in trouble it takes a ton of energy. Saving a relationship that is tanking takes energy. Ending a relationship that feels beyond repair, takes a lot of energy. Sick relationships require a lot of attention no matter what the outcome is. Not to mention they are expensive in every imaginable way. I’ve ended relationships with men that I wasn’t even married to that cost me tens of thousands of dollars and left me emotionally bankrupt.
