COMMITMENTS & FULFILMENT
I grew up in an environment where your responsibility is spelt out to you every now and then so when you fail to carry your out your obligations, you'd be most times punished for it. But now that I've become an adult and I get to make most decisions for myself, things have gotten easier for me, at least that's what I chose to believe because now I don't have anyone to keep telling me what to do every single time.
Due to the fact that I knew that if I fail at my responsibility someone will always remind me of it, I started making deliberate efforts towards meeting up with my responsibilities without anyone interfering. At a young age I always tried my best to do everything that I need to do before the adults start reminding me to do them. I don't like making them complain about me not carrying out my obligations well.
It got to a point when I started meeting up with everything and even more than what was required of me and I knew how fulfilled and happy that made me. Outside the fact that I was satisfied, I also get to grow my knowledge every time I meet up with my responsibilities. I love it when I'm competent with anything but then that only happens when I know what is expected of me.
When I know my responsibilities as a person, it's easier for me to know when I'm not doing well and think of a way to resolve it but when I don't know what I need to do at a given point in time, I find out that I become very incompetent and that makes me feel my worst. But at a time like this, I just make sure to keep doing my best at the little things.
One of the things that I find really challenging is not knowing what I need to do. Because I do believe that as long as I know what I need to do, it gets easier from there. Even if I get lost at some point, I can easily snap out of it and get back into action. So whenever I make some commitments, the first thing I want to do is get all the facts straight so when I don't play my part well, I'd know even without anyone telling me.
But you know, I'm really scared of making commitments because I most times don't meet up with them especially when it's something that I didn't even plan for early. The best way I try to balance my commitments is through timing! Time is one of the most precious assets that is so invaluable but if one is not careful they might spend their time on unnecessary things.
Whenever I get some commitments that I didn't plan well for, I just try to prioritize things by allocating time to everything that I need to do. Right now I'm at a friend's place helping her babysit her child while she went for a medical appointment. Normally, I had planned to do some other things today before I got this call and it was almost impossible for me to decline because I had promised to help out whenever she needed my help and I'm not away.
Taking care of a child is not something you can plan with completely but sometimes one might be lucky. This morning I woke up really early because I know I have extra work on my plate and I need to meet up with everything! I had to start working on my phone and not too long after then baby was up, lol. I had to carry her and play with her and it took her close to 5 hours before she fell asleep and I was with her all through those hours!
Immediately she went to bed I had to continue my engagements on my phone and now I'm even making a post before she wakes up. So what I do is, depending on the obligation I have to carry out, I allocate more time to some than the others and that's how I manage to balance up my commitments but sadly sometimes it gets really overwhelming and I just have to sacrifice my nap in the noon to balance up things.
The truth is I do feel overwhelmed and sometimes burdened but it's not as before ever since I start learning how to manage my time well and also try to avoid procrastinating and postponing things. I'm still learning how to master these habits so there are glitches every now and then but I'm optimistic it can only get better and as they say, "Practice makes perfect!"
Until next time, stay AWESOME and JIGGY!!!
Time management is a great way we can remain committed to our responsibilities. And this demands that we know what to do at the right time, and also be ready for the things that may interrupt our plans.
This is awesome ✨
Thanks very much for sharing.
You're absolutely right, while planning for how well our plans should go, it's also needed that we plan for those unknown circumstances.
Thank you so much for your contribution 🥰
Knowing what to do is a big step towards having that very thing done. I love the way you were brought up, I think I am also going to bring my kids up that way someday.
Teaching children how to take responsibilities at a young age is good. You don't know where life may place such a child tomorrow. If he or she should be able to master how to confront any task that confronts them life would be much easier for them.
Timing Is very crucial when it comes to commitment, had it been it's just one thing we have to do everyday it would have been better but each day we have different things to do as such if we don't plan well, we may end up not meeting target.
I have not baby sit before, but I know that thing is super stressful, I am just imagining how combining it with how house chores looks like.. you need to get some good rest when the mother finally comes back.
If I had someone helping know what to do those times when I don't, life would have been easier and fun. But it's fine because those times help us know when we are doing well and when we are not.
Yes, it would be very helpful to children if they are taught how to be responsible from a young age but sometimes it might be a problem, they might get too responsible, lol.
Sometimes when we get the timing right there is always going to be something that will make us seek for a better timing, it goes on and on.
Yeah, once she returns I'd get some rest, thank you so much for your concern ❤️
You seem to be talking from the depth of experience mom. Well, your boy is always following in your footsteps.
Please try and get some rest ko ma🥰
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You are doing great by allocating time for everything.
I am sure your childhood training has a part to play in this balancing of yours. I believe it is not so easy and one will often feel overwhelmed
Nice one. Thanks for sharing
Yeah my childhood upbringing contributed to it greatly.
It's not bad to feel overwhelmed but don't stay overwhelmed, hehe.
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I think it's good to let people learn from their mistakes and face the consequences sometimes, instead of pointing out to adults how they should operate or what they might have missed:)
Thanks for your #KISS
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I totally agree with you, especially when they've made it clear at most twice. Some people just like experiencing things for themselves even though that's not the best but that works too.
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BEERKING.I love how allocating time to more important things works for you. It can definitely get overwhelming trying to juggle a lot activities at the same time but in the end we always find a way to figure things out .
My regards to the baby☺️. I can't imagine how time consuming it is taking care of a baby.
Nice post
It's not easy to go with timing when there is a baby involved because they live in their own world. I'm just going to keep pushing and doing what I can, hehe.
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