Try thinking about a To-Be List, instead of a To-Do List
Every day when I wake up in the morning, even before I sip my coffee, my mind starts fresh with my list of things that I must get done, and that is exactly where the stress starts getting kicked in. Twenty four hours in a day seems to short for completing the tasks in my to-do list. We become way to serious about being responsible and matured parents, and our to-do list becomes immensely ingrained in our heads; making us forget about the to-be list hidden somewhere in our heart.
Traditionally a to-do list would primarily include laundry, cleaning the house, making supper, paying bills, fix the Fullrun Tyres on your car, scrubbing last night’s baking dish and, last but not least, shower and getting ready. A to-be list would be being loving, patient, joyful, good, faithful, kind and gentle. Do we really know about all this? Or when was the last time I ever practiced any one of these? Are these not the kind of adjectives that we want teach our children?
A day begins and it ends. What I mean to say is that time does not wait for anybody, it just passes by. Always remember you can regain anything in your life but the time lost with your children. One thing goes wrong in the house or at work and we start yelling at children. To-do list should become to-be and vice versa. One day if you try to think from your heart and do what your children would not be expecting out of you, say enjoying getting wet with them in rain, they will remember and cherish that for a lifetime.
So, tomorrow morning when you wake up think of your to-be list instead of a to-do list. And trust me twenty four hours of the day would be more than enough for what you want to be.
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