{"id":7973,"date":"2013-07-20T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2013-07-20T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T11:53:14","slug":"getting-things-done-intentionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/getting-things-done-intentionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Things Done, Intentionally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January, in lieu of a list of 2013 goals, I wrote a post about being intentional<\/a> for the coming year. \u00a0Since then I have not been intentional about sharing how that\u2019s going. \u00a0My apologies, but luckily there\u2019s no time like the present.<\/p>\n

Certainly my level of intention has ebbed and flowed as the year has progressed. \u00a0Overall, however, I feel like I\u2019ve been more content about how I\u2019ve spent my time and less annoyed about the amount of time wasted. \u00a0At the end of the school year, partially due to factors beyond my control, I found myself making much better use of my prep time and getting more done during the school day.<\/p>\n

One of the recurring themes of my intentionality is doing things when the opportunity presents itself and not waiting until the following day, even if there appears to be ample time. \u00a0In other words, when in doubt, do it. \u00a0Case in point: Wednesday was one of the hottest days of the summer. \u00a0We were almost out of bread and I needed to make more (I promise, the post about baking my own bread is coming!). \u00a0So after much hemming and hawing about it, I finally forced myself into the kitchen and made bread. \u00a0And, as is so often the case, completing the task was much less of an ordeal than I\u2019d made it out to be in my mind. \u00a0I am very familiar with what it takes to make bread, but when I don\u2019t want to do something the job becomes so much bigger in my head.<\/p>\n

\"Not

Not the bread I made this week.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

And its a good thing I made the bread on Wednesday because on Thursday it was ridiculously hot (88 inside the house with the fans running) and the only thing I felt capable of doing was lying on the couch, watching The Rescuers on Netflix and sleeping, which is exactly what I did. \u00a0When I awoke in the late afternoon, I headed to the supermarket. \u00a0Originally my plan for Friday, the grocery store was the only place I could think of that would be cool and actually let me accomplish something. \u00a0I cannot fathom how miserable baking on Thursday would have been.\u00a0 Nor can I express how wonderfully cool the store was.<\/p>\n

And on Friday (which was also painfully hot), I needed almost every moment of the day to finish getting the house ready for company, plus running a few errands and showering for a second time because of the heat. \u00a0Our guests ended up being able to arrive a couple hours earlier than planned which was awesome and thanks to being intentional with my time, we were ready.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve chosen to do something immediately instead of waiting and it always seems to work out well. \u00a0Interruptions always seem to come up and it\u2019s nice to be able to take advantage of last minute changes and opportunities because I made good use of my time earlier.\u00a0 The moral of the story: if you can do it now instead of later, do it now.<\/p>\n

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