6-6 Activity_ Define Your Pockets - TMM Module 6 Tue, 3/22 10:39AM 6:35 SUMMARY KEYWORDS pockets, packet, hour, define, kid, calculate, schedule, lunch, module, plan, quiet, errand, monday afternoon, section, talk, swim, naptime, homeschooling, dressed, flexible schedule SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hey there successful mama. Welcome back to module six. And we are talking about defining your packets. Patricia Sung 00:08 What are your packet, so let's take a look here and go into your foundational schedule that you already have created in module four. And here's my sample one. This is not what I'm doing right now, this is my one, from two years ago when I first started doing this, and I think it's important for me to say that and knowing that, once you get the hang of this, you're not going to have to walk through this step by step, every time where schedule changes, you'll be able to, to flow with it a little more. Patricia Sung 00:37 So I know we're doing a lot of like calculating and sorting and figuring out because I want you to understand that full process, but you're not gonna have to do that every time. Just in case your brain is like, this is a lot of steps. It is a lot of steps from the beginning, because you don't know what you're doing yet. But once you know what you're doing, it'll be a lot more smooth. Patricia Sung 00:53 Okay. So foundational schedule. At this time in my life, I had a preschooler and a toddler. And, you know, our morning started with me getting up around 637, to do a little prayer time, get myself ready and dressed before the kids woke up at 730. There, you know, play with the boys, then around eight, we're getting breakfast ready, we're getting dressed, because we have a preschool drop off at nine. So that meant we had to get like shoes on and going out the door. And then we had a little bit of a little gap here where I could run an errand if I needed to, but 

we'd swim lessons at 930. So it was like a super fast errand. And then we needed to shower and change after swim. And so here we have my packet is from 1030 to noon, have an open space of like, I could do whatever I want in this open space. Patricia Sung 01:44 Now, for you that open space in your head might already be like, I have to do this thing. For example, if you go to work, yeah, sure, you have to do a certain thing in your Monday morning bucket because you like to be employed. But if you're flexible, if you have a more flexible schedule, like if you're homeschooling or you're working from home all sudden, it's like the world is your oyster. And then like what are you going to do with that hour and a half of your brain is like, I don't know, what should I do. And then you get stuck, because you're not sure where to go next. Patricia Sung 02:12 So we're going to define these pockets and give them a job. So that when we get to that point, it's like, okay, I know what I'm going to do in this section, because I already made a plan. And keep in mind, it's not going to be the same plan every time. Because we like change. And we like things to be different. But we do have a plan. And so there's not going to be these moments of like, like kind of spinning in circles, like what do I do next, because you've already made a plan and you know where to go, what choices you have at that time, what your options are and what to go like where to go from there. Patricia Sung 02:44 Okay, so let's define our pockets, we're going to look at all of these empty spaces in our week, and calculate them up. So we know about how much time we have, and in like, what kind of sections so that we can make the most appropriate match to that pocket. I'll give you example in a second. But for now, let's calculate some pockets. Patricia Sung 03:08 Okay, so here we have this packet is an hour and a half long, it goes from 1030 to 12. And then we have to eat lunch. And then if I look at my Monday afternoon packet, it goes from 1230 down here until about three when I need to start cooking dinner. Now, this packet, I have one kid, and one of the lunch, it's like, okay, this half of the pocket, I have a kid for an hour, and then I just go pick up and I got two kids. So normally, in this phase, we were still doing like naptime and quiet time, right after lunch, before school pickup. And so in theory, I would have about an hour of like, Kid free time to get something done. Patricia Sung 03:53 So when I start thinking about what kind of activities are going to go in here, this is the time where I'm going to put things like, Okay, I know my kid is occupied. This is a time I want to make phone calls or have an important conversation or something that I really need to 

make phone calls or have an important conversation or something that I really need to concentrate on. Whereas the hour after school, and I've got two kids, probably not the time I want to be making phone calls, right? So I'm starting to think about what makes sense in that timeframe. What else am I doing? What else was going on? And when I look at this, I can start to see I'm like, oh, you know what, I didn't even write naptime and like starting quiet time on here. Patricia Sung 04:29 So I need to go back and say like after lunch and quiet time, like maybe this isn't a whole 30 minutes of kid free time. Maybe that's like you know, 15 minutes by the time we get lunch cleaned up and you know upstairs for quiet time. But I'm trying to define these pockets of time how much space I have open. So like Tuesday morning here I've got an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon. I've got an hour and a half. Now look Wednesday morning. I was doing a Bible study at this time so I don't have a pocket. That's empty. Patricia Sung 04:59 On Wednesday morning, Imean, I have a pocket, I chose to fill it with Bible study, that's already the commitment that I need. So I can't put something else there. I only get one packet on Wednesday, but it's two hours. And it's you can go through and keep in mind like your, the template that you have has Saturday and Sunday and it goes like all the way down to the you know, the end of the day. But I'm using this one because it already is filled in and it's easier as an example, with all the information in there. Patricia Sung 05:25 It's just so you're defining, okay, here's all my pockets Monday morning, hour and a half, Monday afternoon, two hours, one with kids without twos Tuesday morning, an hour and a half, Tuesday afternoon, an hour and a half, Wednesday afternoon, two hours, and you're gonna write out all of these packets and define them so you can start piecing together the puzzle. And so, oops, let me pull up the slide so you can see your activity. Patricia Sung 05:57 So it is to go in and define the pockets and I can't help but I keep singing that song in my head. It has pockets. Your schedule has pockets. Okay, we'll define your pockets. And you're going to define the rough more or less to start on time because obviously it's not going to go perfectly every time but like more or less, how much time are you going to happen this section and label them and say how much time you have in there. And then in our next module, we'll talk about we're going to do then. Alright, plan for whe you going to that too. Talk to you soon!