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Forget about the "pandemic" for just a minute and think about how crazy busy your life was prior to this fiasco. So, for the past year, we've been told to stay home. It seems like that would've slowed our lives down right? Then why does it feel like I've literally never been more busy in my life, than I have in the past 10 months and counting... Regardless if you have children and or a spouse, as women, I just feel like we're ALWAYS busy no matter what's happening in life. Yes, even during a worldwide pandemic!!

It seems like there's always something we need to be doing, or someone we need to help, or somethig we need to clean or organize. It's in our nature. We are naturally busy human beings, nurturers, constantly pushing forward, even if we're exausted from becoming a new mom, or a fulltime career woman, a homeschooling teacher (thanks a lot CO-Vid) or if it's from giving time and attention to family members or friends in need or even just lending an ear, getting our kids to and from their practices, games, recitals, homework, cooking, cleaning etc. etc. the list goes on and on and I know you get my drift. Well, I personally am the kind of person that cannot sit still. I have to be doing something, and if I have "nothing" to do, I will find something that needs to be cleaned or re-organized and I will create work for myself. However, my issue is that I sometimes have a hard time staying on task. Since I hate being bored, and I get bored easily I end up starting like 5 different projects all at once. I am constantly finding myself wrapped up in too many commitments. I hate saying no, I literally don't know how to say no, so sometimes I end up over comitting myself and getting in over my head. I am such a people pleaser, I like to make people happy and I was raised to have that "can do" attitude sometimes to a fault I guess.

Even though I over committ, In turn, I will always follow through, I won't let the ball drop, I will run myself ragged to the point of exaustion to ensure i don't let anyone down and follow through with all of my commitments. I know there are things I need to work on, but I also know I cannot change my mentality of always striving and wanting more, so with that being said, I wanted to share two books I recently read that have helped me tremendously. One is The Women of the Bible Speak, by Shannon Bream and the other is Get Out of Your Head, by Jennie Allen. The weird thing is, I've never been a big reader. I've always wanted to be, but like I mentioned before, I will get over committed so instead of starting one book and finishing it all the way through, I'll start like 3 books and slowly finish them within the year (yeah, I know that's super embarrassing) But, I have changed that big time this year. And maybe it has something to do with what I've recently chosen to read and it's stole my attention and interest, but I have really enjoyed these two and I wanted to share them with you, because if you're feeling busy or overwhelmed sometimes like I do, I recommend sitting down, perhaps with a glass of wine and reading something sould nuturing and relevant. I guarantee it will make you feel better and accomplished.