Today I'm also making plans for fitting Grace into my days.
Agenda:
1. Grace notes
2. Read "The Sweet Spot"
3. Housework script
4. Fall Cleaning and Home projects
5. Holiday mindset
6. Thank-You School plans
1. Grace notes:
This moon cycle I'm giving attention to Grace and how I relax into life, by keeping a Grace Notes journal to record gifts and nudges from God, and clearness received.
In essence, grace is extending kindness, compassion, and forgiveness to everyone, unconditionally.
As always, it works best when I begin by extending grace to myself, and accept that my worth isn’t contingent on performance, appearance, or productivity.
This week I will have MANY opportunities to extend grace to my family and to myself. I will begin with a focus on simple kindness, being less judgmental to myself and to others. Notice when I hold others or myself to impossible standards and consciously choose to extend understanding and forgiveness.
2. Read "The Sweet Spot":
This chapter is about how to "foster positive feelings toward the people around me". Sounds like extending grace!
"Social connections help us live and work from our sweet spots by bringing us both strength and ease." This is because Love is our supreme emotion. People with love in their lives are happier, more successful, and healthier.
The first part is about "positivity resonance", which is like an amplifier: When we share a smile with another person, our biochemistry synchs up - heart rate, breathing, body language - like a synchronized dance. The positivity is bigger than if I was alone and smiling.
3. Housework script:
Last week I began to practice a new ritual-script for house cleaning, to help me over the hump of non-motivation without over-thinking. I practice it two times a day:
Morning-
- 8 am: Transition to Morning Chores: Get dressed, and mentally list 10 action items to get myself in the zone.
- 8:15: Take 10 mini-actions, starting with clearing my office and ending with getting breakfast.
Afternoon-
- 4 pm: Pick-Me-Up NRG drink + protein, then mentally list 5 actions to take.
- 4:15: Take five actions starting with the room of the week and ending with toy clean up.
I still need scripts for my creative time, and for hygiene.
4. Fall Order and Home projects:
Last week I set an intention to create order and simplicity in my sanctuary, so that everything I keep has a place, all things are honored, and I know what is in each space: Try a daily morning-10-things / aternoon-5-things ritual to help me break a habit of slothfulness (which is really mental overload), because outer order supports inner calm and resilience, and opens the time I need for being Godly.
My goals this week:
- Simplify the laundry room shelves and make room for a new microwave.
- Clear the kitchen table and find better places for each thing.
- Clear out the junk left in the yard, and find places for it.
And we are trucking right along on our big renovation project. My next steps:
- Get steppers and paint.
- Begin to place the cement steppers.
- Take photos of the saws and post them on Craig's list.
- Design a screen.
- Paint the front of the house.
5. Holiday mindset:
In order to keep the main thing the main thing this week, my intentions and priorities are:- Savor the experience of preparing and hosting Thanksgiving dinner.
- Communicate with everyone to compile a gift list.
- Make a list of gift-making ideas, and used books and toys: Make a plan, order supplies, and get started!
Our fall schedule includes a two-day pre-school, with coloring pages on a different theme each week, related outdoor projects, field trips, and art. I want to focus on nature awareness, process art and basic art skills (drawing, painting, cutting, glueing, etc.).
This week the theme is Thank-You:
- Make a Thank-You tree (Cutting, drawing)
- Look at Thanksgiving and Thank-You books.
- Make pies together.
- Visit the Holiday Market
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