Overcoming Busy

Start Overcoming Busy Right Now – Wisdom From Readers

March 5, 2010 by Marci

Last week, on Start Overcoming Busy Right Now, I opened it up to readers to give their best ways to overcome busy.  I was so impressed!  I am posting these great reader ideas and words of wisdom  this week so you can learn from them.

I feel that lately I make these massive to-do lists and then I don’t get anything done. I am realizing that I have to just take one room at a time. Even if that one room takes me a few days. If I really focus on that room I can finally cross it off my mental to do list. Thanks for all of your great ideas for Overcoming Busy, I need every one of them.          —-Amy @ Girlfriends Get Real

I really have been working on this hard! I think a lot of it has come from others saying to me, Chele slow down, it will come in time… I’ve realized that baby steps are the most important thing to overcome busy. Stop making so many huge goals and do everything in baby steps. Even if it’s things like finding room for God in your days. If you plan to make 30 minutes with God in the morning, when it already is so busy in the mornings… then you will fail but baby steps like making a goal to 5 minutes to spend with Him every day will work better!——Chele @ The Bona Fide Life

I think the main thing I am doing to stop the busy is to try to do one thing at a time. If I multi-task, I get frazzled and everyone follows me down that rabbit hole. When I focus on one thing, that thing gets finished a lot faster and better than when I am scattered. I am trying to teach my kids to be uni-taskers rather than multi-taskers. —-Holly

One way that I overcome busy is by doing one big household chore each day rather than than trying to have a ‘cleaning day.’ I’ve found this especially useful with small children underfoot…you just never have 2 hours to devote to cleaning all at once. One chore a day is much more manageable in my mind week to week. And if I get it all done during the week I can really relax and enjoy the weekend with the family! —–Heidi @ Wonder Woman Wannabe

I overcome busy by simply shifting my mindset to a week that begins on Sunday, rather than Monday. It means our week begins with the whole family at home, going to church together and having a family dinner. If I think of my week beginning Monday, I am quickly overwhelmed with packing lunches, getting everyone off to school, worrying about everyone else’s business and schedules… We try to keep Saturday as a fun day, but do a little extra work to get the house tip-top so we don’t have to clean on Sunday.—–Kate

Aren’t they inspiring?  Have any other tips to overcome busy right now where you are?