How many hours of alone time do you currently get during a typical day?
(No, hours was not a typo.)
Is your current alone time stat <1 hour? Want to know how to get more of that precious stuff?
Then keep listening for your top don’ts on how to get time to yourself, every single day – because yes, you CAN go from “nap time = chore time” to “nap time = hours to myself every day”!
Carve the time (away from to-do’s)
First? Don’t magically expect the time to appear. Your to-do list is used to taking over every sliver of your life; it’s not going to just give up space to your hobby all of a sudden!
No, that’s something YOU’RE going to have to fight for.
Your own recharge time often gets lost between the laundry, the dishes, the butt wiping, and getting something on the table for supper.
So if you’re lost in the naptime catch-up system, give yourself a jolt with this 5-day challenge designed to get you from “2 hours to catch up on everything” to “2 hours to flop on the couch.”
Because we both know it takes a while to get ourselves out of a routine that’s been (semi) working – even if we don’t like it.
But don’t carve it too small
However, don’t carve up your me time into 20 minutes here, 15 minutes there increments and then expect you should be recharged and reenergized after an hour total of piecemeal “leisure.”
That’s not how our brains work.
You need a solid recharge block to reset, rejuvenate, and refresh. (Sure, those fifteen minutes on your phone gave you a break from scrubbing toilets – I’m not knocking that – but a task break is different than a whole-day break.)
Your to-do list is used to taking over every sliver of your life; it’s not going to give up space all of a sudden.
What you need is a concentrated block of time, all to yourself – and I know just how to get that for you.
Take the naptime for business challenge and finally banish the “I never have enough time to garden” woes. (Or whatever your hobby is!)
Take more than the minimum
And lastly, I wouldn’t recommend taking the minimum me time possible once you DO get them down for naps or off racing around the back yard.
You need to get in the habit of treating yourself as worthy, valuable, and interesting in your own right – which means, worth getting 2-3 hours of blocked out hobby time. Every day.
Yes, I said it.
You deserve a good, solid portion of the day to YOURSELF.
Think about it – when were you planning on taking that break? After supper? After dishes? After baths?
Or was it just never going to happen – again – while you were cleaning up the house, said hi to your husband, and fell into bed all over again?
You see, that’s the routine we need to break. Life’s not about just going through the motions, keeping the kids fed, while totally neglecting yourself.
But to change that, we’ve got to radically shift your mental priorities to “keeping them alive” AND “keeping myself charged up.” Got it?
It’s time to do something radical with your naptime.
It’s time to retake your free time. To rediscover who you used to be, and start feeding her.
You’ll like your life so much more – I promise.
Take the naptime business challenge and start your daily relaxing habit this afternoon!
