Okay, let’s be honest.  Our circuits are disrupted and overloaded.  We are working hard  to identify our power source, and for our family, finding a way to recharge has simply been taking some time to just ‘be’.

Now this challenge doesn’t involve inventing something, or push ups or creating a TikTok video.

The challenge is to ‘be’ and take your moment…..or moments.  

I read a fascinating article in the NY Times recently, and it really resonated with me.  Why does it seem that more and more people are trying to be overachievers and accomplish something absolutely great and revolutionary?  Heck, I’ve heard that people spend hours trying to perfect a TikTok….and wait on pins and needles to see how many likes they get… just waiting to go viral.

Let’s be honest, huge kudos to anyone that is managing it all: creating some incredible business, while writing a book, and keeping their houses not only tidy, but decorated for the holidays, vacuumed and dusted, and planting flowers all the while working out and eating healthy.

This last week was my week.  I hit pause.  I had my moment, or should I say, moments.  Life comes with challenges, and I can only take so many walks, and escape to a bath until I shrivel like a prune.  These days every time I scrolled through my social media, or open my email, I was sucked into live videos, how to make your next million, or how to land the perfect side hustle, or being tagged in some sort of challenge.

To be honest, this last week I had a hard time getting things done.

I needed a moment.  

The urge to overachieve, even in times of crisis, is reflective of American’s always-on work culture.

I’m not an expert, but I am a mom of three trying by best to navigate the uncertainty that starts each day, and encourage you to take this time, and use it in a way that’s best for you.  

Turn the lens inward and take your moment or moments.  If you have to pull the covers back over your head in the morning, do it.  Don’t stay there all day…. As a matter of fact after a minute or two, get up and get going.

We are all navigating this season of uncertainty in different ways.  We all have different stories, and different set of circumstances; and most importantly we are just trying to do our best, and get through the day.

Most of us are ‘average’ people, and have to kick that perfectionism and overachiever in us to the curb.  We don’t have to be productive every minute of every day. We need our moments.  

Keep in mind that you are enough, just as you are. And always pull up a chair at the table. No dress code requirements.

My advice.  

Just keep moving forward.  

Take a walk when you can.  

Text a friend.  

Call your mom.  

Write a note to someone you admire. 

Give yourself some moments, and with those moments be patient with yourself and give yourself the gift of grace.  We got this.  One day at a time.