A colleague reminded me of an exercise that's intended to teach students how to balance their lives. Here's how it works: You make a schedule of your day and categorize each activity based on whether it builds energy, drains energy, or is a complete waste of time. The goal is to have more energy building activities than energy draining ones (duh!). Let's see how I did today:
Slept in an hour later than normal-- should have been energy building, but I missed my normal morning run, which definitely builds energy AND made me feel guilty for staying in bed like a slug-- so that's an energy drain
Read scriptures-- energy building
Wrote a conference proposal draft and sent it off to colleagues-- energy draining, although ultimately the project is energy building-- it would be building if I weren't already so tired
Went to lunch with several colleagues-- energy building conversation
Waited an hour for our lunch to arrive-- energy draining
Finished conference proposal-- energy building
Went to Michael's to find materials to make ornaments for Thursday night's ornament exchange, which entailed driving in the rain as it got dark-- energy draining
Ate dinner-- energy building
Paid bills-- energy building- I know, weird, but I always finish paying bills and think, "Yes! Made it this month!"
Family home evening-- energy building
So how'd I do? I think maybe I broke even. Hmm. Gotta work on this.
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Breaking even is better than having too many draining exercises.
Waiting an hour for a meal? Where was that?
Cheddar's. For some reason the guy on the salad line was "stressed" and couldn't figure out how to put salads together quickly-- but he got other people's orders done who came after us . . .
Too scared to do this particular exercise, but it's interesting to see how yours turned out. Not too shabby!
Do the exercise and then just don't make it public-- or pick a day that's going really, really well.
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