Habit stacking not only changed my mornings, it’s changed my entire days.
Here’s what I gleaned from using The 20/20/20 Method and how it miraculously reconfigured my hours, days, weeks, and months in just twenty-minute segments.
When my friend was diagnosed with cervical cancer years ago, it was the first time I had tried to serve someone with a critical diagnosis. Honestly, because of my anxiety, I was a clueless and unhelpful bystander other than praying. I froze and regretfully did nothing. I wish someone had given me a list of pragmatic ways to serve.
It wasn’t until my own mother-in-law had lung cancer that I began to understand from the inside how to be more useful.
Some days it’s hard to put on a pretty face.
Tears welling up in my eyes make the mascara goopy instead of crisp and thick, sloppy smears pool at the corners as I attempt to apply it. “Gotta pull it together, pretty girl,” my voice speaks to the reflection in the mirror. “You have to take your daughter to the doctor and help your husband host a lunch meeting.”
Why can’t I summon the will to live right now? Sometimes there are days when all I can say is “I’m sorry.”
His empty room. The coffee cup he used just this morning. Another random size 13 sock found at the back of the closet....
Now that we are two MONTHS from the Man Cub going off to college, the same things still roll across my mind.
Oh, Racism, why are you so ugly?
Progressing deeper into the quarantine rabbit hole, I have been feeling a little off-kilter and wondering why...
Great stories have been written in the midst of tragedies.
War in a Time of Peace.
Love in a Time of War.
What about Coffee in a Time of Quarantine?
Quarantine got you down? Need a walk on the bright side? I’ve got you covered.
Have a look.