Making time for your passions.
In this Edition:
Quote
Update
Motivate: “Too busy” syndrome
Book discussion
Medical Moment: Functional medicine Clinic Crawl
Final thoughts
Update:
In the summer, I spent a lot of my time volunteering for church camp, and while it was satisfying, it drained me. I ended up teaching a couple sessions and was rudely reminded of how much of an introvert I am.
I was “on” for many hours each day, and it resulted in a desperate need to be “off” when I got home, which meant getting very little else done. I didn’t even pack for our weekend trip until the morning we left, which isn’t like me because “I just couldn’t!”
I enjoy people, but, for whatever reason, only certain people leave me feeling energized after an interaction. For most interactions, I have to “recover,” and I don’t necessarily want to be productive during my “recovery” period.
When we made these “fabulous summer plans,” I didn’t think about how I’d actually execute them. How I’d need to pack a lunch every single day or that we’d be at my mom’s house every day, where I will have to fight everyone over healthy food choices, and the list goes on.
Because left to my girls and my mom, the menu would look like this:
Breakfast: biscuits and jam
Lunch: cornbread, fruit, and candy
Snack: juice, cinnamon toast, and just one more piece of candy.
This likely explains why I have health problems now, but I digress.
Motivate:
How many times have you heard yourself say, “I’m just too tired to do this. I’ve been through too much today to do that.”
There are always excuses. Something will always come up.
Unless you actively decide to do it anyway.
This week, my motivation section is a challenge. What’s a goal you can set for yourself this week a?
If you will, and I encourage you to do so, set a goal right now, even if it’s something small. Write it down or hold it firmly in your mind. Email it to me if you want (I check this email regularly and always respond, even it’s not right away.) Work on accomplishing it this week.
I mean it.
Really.
Final thoughts below.
Books:
Current read/progress: 30% into MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin. It’s good enough that I’ll keep going, but it’s not as exciting as some. Stay tuned.
I found the celebrity book club picks interesting this month (2 are Women’s fiction.). Not sure if I plan to read these, but this is what the celebs are recommending this month. Let me know if you read one!
Reese’s Book Club June Pick:
COUNTERFEIT by Kirstin Chen.
Category: Women’s/Crime/Frienship/Thriller
For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise—an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.
Oprah’s Book Club June Pick:
NIGHTCRAWLING by Leila Mottley
Category: Literary Fiction
A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system—the debut of a blazingly original voice and “a soul-searching portrait of survival and hope” (Oprah Winfrey)
Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club June Pick:
THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS by Salma El-Wardany
Category: Women’s/Cultural Heritage/Friendship
A razor-sharp debut novel of three best friends navigating love, sex, faith, and the one night that changes it all.
Final thoughts:
This week, make your plans and accomplish something with me. There will always be items standing in your way unless you move them aside or plow through them.
Let’s work together to get something done despite all the other things.
Success to you this week!
Until then, much glitter,
Melissa
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