You can’t do everything!!

We are in a unique time right now. In fact, time for me is moving very differently than usual.  It moves incredibly slow sometimes and fast at other times. We are into this practice of social distancing for over two weeks now and we have at least another 30 days ahead of us.

The question I keep asking myself is “How am I using my time?” and “Am I making it meaningful?”

Over the last couple of weeks, I have tried to bring you tips and tools that can help you connect with your family and help think about education in a different way. We talked about creating structure around your day and engaging in activities that not only combine a variety of learning disciplines but also help to build life skills.  

I have seen so much media and information about what we “should” be doing with our time. I am hearing messages about using this “universal down time” to get healthy, write a book, learn a language, learn a new craft, etc.  While all of that makes sense and indeed can be great ways to use this time we have, I think there are many of us where being home with our families has actually taken away our “down time”.  

When our kids went off to school, we could get a break, get household work done, or go to our own place of work.  For many, going to work is a place to recharge and take a break. We are called in this time to think about this in a different way.  We are called to pause and reflect. Not just on how we are using our time but on how we may want to do things differently.  

We are going to have a wide range of emotions.  There is fear, compassion, gratitude, drive, learning, growth, sadness, and hope. We move through these emotions in all different ways and I think in our pause, we need to be ok with “good enough”.  We are doing the best that we can. There is no right way to feel or to work through all that we are facing. I think we have to really connect with ourselves, mind and body, and perhaps for the first time ever, learn what we really need to nurture and take care of ourselves.  

Maybe we just need some time to just BE and not do anything.