How To Stay Productive At Home (Spoiler Alert: You Already Are)

For Christmas I received a daily planner.  I chuckled a little, wondering what I would write in it.  Shall I schedule diaper changes?  Toddler meltdowns?  A friend suggested making a gratitude list.  I had done that before and found it helpful, but I often felt a little bit of shame after making the list, as if I had failed by not being thankful in the first place.  (Enneagram 1’s, are you with me?)  I needed to feel productive.  I needed to feel like I was making an impact.  I needed to get something, anything accomplished.  

Here’s the thing: I already was.  I just didn’t notice it.  It was like my gratitude list–I didn’t always notice the gifts of my life.  Gifts.  Gifts can be received…and given.  I was discounting the ways I was giving to my children, my spouse, my community, and so on.  So beginning January 1 I began a new practice.  Read about it on Toledo Moms!