Don’t do this! A recipe for insanity.
September 11, 2006 – 12:31 pmI never recommend moving into a new house, launching a new website, and changing your custody schedule all the same week your child starts first grade. See, what happens is you get stuck in a snowball effect where each thing affects the next and the next thing you know everything is all backwards and confused. The one good part is that I’ll get it all over with at once and about two weeks from now I’ll wonder what all of the excitement was about.
My daughter is starting first grade this week and her school requires that we carpool. And, we have to carpool even if the kids have an after school activity. My daughter’s after school activity happens to be located 5 minutes from her school and it starts 15 minutes after school gets out. In a world where things were easy, my babysitter would go pick her up from school and bring her to her martial arts class. But, because of the carpool requirement, we either have to have another child in the car with us when we leave campus or Kaia has to go in another parent’s car who would then have to drop her off at martial arts. You would think that this wouldn’t be too difficult, just find a parent to drop Kaia off at her class. Not so simple because of the two families we carpool with in the morning, one of the families’ kids go to their grandmas in the other direction and the child of the other family has her own after school activity to get to and dropping Kaia off would require two left turns adding at least 5 minutes to their drive in a situation where 5 minutes means the difference between the other child making it to her dance class in time. You get the picture.
The beauty is that I know it will all work out just fine and I’m really not stressing out about it. I probably would be stressing about it if I didn’t attend service at Agape today. Need a reminder that it’s all good? Check out AgapeLive.com and download one of Reverend Michael’s sermons. No matter what religion you are, you will absolutely love the message here. Agape is an international spiritual center that is trans-denominational and if you’d like to be able to live through times like this without fear, I suggest you check it out.
I’d love to hear from you as to how you juggle the insanity in your life. Do you have something like Agape? Or do you have a favorite book that always helps to get you out of your head? Or maybe you call a best friend who helps you stop taking yourself so seriously. Let me know; I’d love to hear. And, check out the new website when you have a minute. MartinNeely.com. Oh, and did I mention that this is the week my personal and marketing assistant is out of town? And, that I’m scheduled to speak at an event on Wednesday night? Something else to laugh about.