Full Time, All the Time
with Britt Reints
Forget the 9 to 5; Full Time, All the Time is a blog about the mobile working life - when you have the freedom to work from anywhere and the responsibility of always having your smartphone turned on. Britt Reints works as a freelance writer while traveling fulltime in an RV with her husband and two kids. She explores balancing real-life bills with an unconventional work life, and finding time to maintain relationships with family and friends.
You can also find Britt at InPursuitOfHappiness.net.
I don’t need resolutions, I need solutions
Categories: Parenting Tips and Tricks for the working mom, balance, working mom
I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t start a diet or a new work out plan with the rest of America. I’ve learned that saying I want to be more patient doesn’t actually make me more patient. I’m not vowing to read more books, eat less red meat, or buy more organic. It’s as good as it’s gonna get. Especially in January, when my fingers are practically frozen because my spouse insists that heating the house to 62 degrees is actually heating the house.
I don’t need resolutions. Resolutions are like promises, they mean nothing and nobody seems to really care if you break it.
But solutions? Solutions I’ll take any time. If anyone can solve the mystery that is my never-ending laundry problem, I’ll be tap dancing my way into that solution.
This year, I decided to implement one solution. Just one. It won’t solve world hunger or fix our economy. But it makes ending the day and starting the next one so much easier for me.
My solution is to take the last 30 minutes of the day (okay, by then it’s actually night) and organize my home office. Okay, it isn’t really a home office - more like a converted old kitchen table that I’ve reclaimed as my workspace. Items that need actioning, get actioned. Papers that need recycling, get recycled. Everything has a place and gets put in its place. And I can go to bed with a nice clean desk and wake up in the morning feeling like I’m starting the day in a better place.
It’s a small change. It’s the start of a solution to a bigger problem in my life. I’ve got to learn how to manage the chaos. My learning path started with the realization that if I’m not helping myself manage it then I am contributing to the chaos. So with a clean desk I start a new slate called 2010.
What are your resolutions solutions this year?
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My solution is to get rid of a lot of junk in my house. I’ve been watching Hoarders on A&E (I know, I know. Laugh!), but I truly see some of the beginning signs in me. I get so emotionally attached to physical objects, and that’s not good. Right now, my house is fine, but I see so much STUFF that can be gotten rid of. So, my solution is to go through this entire house for the next month and detach a lot of this stuff. I’m turning around my thought processes.
Coal Miner's Granddaughter | January 9th, 2010 at 5:45 am
Oh my goodness, me too. I love Hoarders. On the one had I sit there and say, wow, I’m not bad. On the other hand I say, OK, I have too much old paper and sit there culling while I watch.
Mich | January 15th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
how come I dont’ see any new posts from you? Miss you.
vera babayeva | January 24th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I just realized your mouse is on the left - it’s making me twitchy. Are you left handed??
Miss Britt | February 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am
Actually, I am right-handed. My first job out of college was heavy on the data entry. I had to 10-key in project codes, department codes, surveys, etc. for a corporate university. So I got used to “mouse-ing” with my left hand so that I could 10-key faster with my right hand. It’s a habit that has stuck all these years later.
robynroark | February 1st, 2010 at 9:47 am