Weekly | Part 2 | ADHD Energy Recharge

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1. ADHD Energy Recharge Part 2 - Weekly Wed, Oct 11, 2023 11:06AM 5:44 SUMMARY KEYWORDS rearrange, rest, information, week, schedule, day, kids, birthday party, copious amounts, restful, monday, sunday, resting, longer, patterns, saturday, matter, accounted, ton, sports SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:01 As you start to look like these are all monthly patterns, they take a little bit longer to discern and to figure out and to watch in. Like, as you're making those notes on the app that pops up every day, writing down your couple of words, it takes longer to assess the monthly ones cuz you can't wait a whole month together like one set of information. But what I want to encourage you in is that like, if you start today, six months from now, you will have a ton of information to be able to see what you need and what works for you. If you don't start today, and you start six months from now, you have no information. And so you're starting from scratch, then. So whatever you start, you're still starting from zero. And even if you don't get every day in there, that's not the point. You don't have to have copious amounts of information to make like to start seeing the patterns. You just need some information. So if you miss a day here and there you if you even do, you only did two days this week, it's cool. gather the information, because that will allow you to start to see the patterns more than no information. So anything that you do is helpful. Don't beat yourself up about you know, oh my gosh, I only launch five out of seven days today. Who cares? You got to find these information. Luckily, you got one day information. Lovely. Okay, so weekly themes. The way that I set up my schedule is through theme days. So for example, Monday is my at home day and appointment day. So if I need to schedule an appointment, it's probably going on a Monday, I know that I won't have other things scheduled that day. And that's my at home day of like cleaning up and picking up from the weekend. Because the way that I because I work from home. The way that I set up my schedule is that I tried to get all of my TASKI things done during the week so that weekends I can be present with my kids and not be like cleaning and stuff. And that works for me in this season. It didn't work when they were younger, and it sure will work at some point. But right now that's how I have set it up. So like Monday is at home day of like picking up all the stuff that got used all weekend. And you know, making sure like the meal plan is sorted. Like all that kind of stuff happens on Monday. Then, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are my workdays. Friday is my I call it like my fun day. So that's the day that I'm going to schedule in a, you know, a coffee with a friend or if I want to do like any kind of like projects and stuff, those things kind of happen on a Friday for our family. Saturday is our rest day. Most people do it on Sunday, but Sunday's a really busy day for us. So like just as a forewarning. Like I, like my faith is very important to me. I will never tell you what to believe. But just know like, I'm, it's a big part of me. So I'm going to mention it here. But I'm not telling you what to do. Okay. So like for us for
2. Sunday, like we go to church in the morning, the boys have Mandarin class and afternoon and then we host a small group at our house. So Sunday is like packed for us. So that's not a restful day. So what we decided to do as a family is that Saturday is our rest day. So that means we don't sign up for like, I mean, we live in Texas, and there's like a bazillion sports for kids of very tiny ages. And I won't get on my sports for kids soapbox for the moment. But like there's a ton of like basketball teams that are like Saturday morning practice. No, that's Morris day, none sign up for anything on Saturdays. So no, that's like reoccurring No, thank you. Now if there's like a birthday party, we'll decide like, Hey, does that fit in our rest day? Like, would that still be restful? So it's not to say that, like we're not doing anything on Saturday. And then we're just like, literally, like laying in our house not moving like, oh, not doing anything fun. No, it's just, that's we're not putting stuff on there to be piled on there. That's our resting. And like, to me, it's like if even God can rest. Like he like built the whole world and like I can rest I will be okay, if I rest. He survived resting, I will survive resting, we can have time away to like not do something productive. I will be okay. Sidenote, you actually need that rest, like you need rest. It's not a luxury. It's not a nice to have. Rest is a really important thing. It allows us to recuperate from before and it also allows us to prepare to go into the week ahead. So having that rest time is really important. So if we end up like, hey, we have two birthday parties on Saturday. Okay, like those people are both important to us. And we want to be there. Where else am I going to put that rest day? How do I rearrange my schedule to make sure that that rest is still accounted for. And like, that's how I teach it in time, age. And mastery is like you create this schedule. And you plan your full week out so that you know what's coming up. Like that's what we do in successful meetups is we start looking ahead at the full week. And then once we have that full picture, that's when we can start rearranging the pieces of like, I have my basic set of what works on like a quote normal week, but then, you know, life happens. And then how do I rearrange these things to make sense? It's like well, if it turns out you know, Monday is my like at home day and it turns out the kids don't have school that day. Not a lot of home stuff is gonna get done when I have two kids here. So the things that have to get then where can I rearrange those pieces and put them so that it still makes sense for me. And that's what like, that's the beauty of having the plan laid out is that you can start rearranging things because what happens when we get too busy, all the things that matter to us are usually the ones that get knocked off the plate. We don't have time for rest. We don't have time to, you know, check on our great grandma in the hospital, those things, they all start falling off the things that like we really want to do. And we get caught up in the busyness of like, oh, sure, I'll volunteer for another fundraiser that I don't want to do, instead of really what the things are that matter to us. So when we step back, and we will look at our week ahead, we can start accounting for the changes that are happening