The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You by Jessica N. Turner

Author:Jessica N. Turner [Turner, Jessica N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian women—Religious life, Time management—Religious aspects—Christianity, SEL035000, REL012070
ISBN: 9781441246165
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-16T23:00:00+00:00

Organize Your Life to Include You

We weren’t created for a 24-7 lifestyle. If we don’t make time for self-care and the things we love, we will break. Many women live the rat race of going, going, going, putting themselves last and making their desires the lowest priority on the never-ending to-do list. Everything else is a higher priority. The very act of self-care seems selfish and becomes something that’s easy to ignore, because frankly, who has time for sewing and running when the laundry is overflowing from baskets and bellies will be hungry soon?

However, even when I feel that pressure, I am ruthless about making me a priority so that I don’t stay overwhelmed for very long. I have learned that I have to organize my life to include time for me and my own personal priorities, no matter how busy life gets. Because when I do that, life is better.

You need to do the same in your life. It can be difficult to ascertain how to go about doing this—particularly when you are juggling a lot of responsibilities—but I promise you, it’s possible.

The fact that you picked up this book is evidence that you are hungry for some time to do what you love. Still, I know how hard it is to admit that “my wellness matters.”

And it does matter.

In leadership and marketing expert Michael Hyatt’s YouTube series “5 Days to Your Best Year Ever,” he says, “The way that you find time is you make time because you don’t get any more of it. You have to figure out in the context of your own priorities what’s important and give yourself to those, because most of us are overrun with the urgent. So we sacrifice the important on the altar of the urgent, and we never get to those things that really matter. That’s gotta be reversed if you’re going to make progress. You’ve got to schedule the important things.”4

As I mentioned earlier, I have chronic daily migraines and issues with my neck and back that cause me pain on a regular basis. For years I had doctors recommend that I routinely get massages, but it always seemed too expensive and not a high enough priority to plan into my regular schedule. One Christmas a friend gave me a gift card for a massage at Massage Envy, which is a chain where people can sign up for a monthly massage membership. After using my gift card there, I decided on a whim to become a member.

That decision has changed my life because now I am consistently taking care of my body in a way I had never previously experienced. The membership fee is automatically deducted from our bank account every month, and a representative from the studio calls to ask when I would like to schedule my massage.

Once I started getting those monthly massages that had been recommended, I felt better. The expense wasn’t the burden I had thought it would be for so long. The monthly massage membership works so well for me because it is scheduled into my life.

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