Welcome to A Little Jolt of Joy. This is something I haven't done for a while here on the Joy Loving Home podcast. And in case you're a newer listener, let me explain really quickly what you're in for. I started doing these little jolts of joy as a way to just sort of speak about something that hit my mind that wasn't necessarily directly related to tips about planning or productivity or organization, but that I thought might help your mindset around how we live and how we seek to choose joy.
And so I had this sort of aha moment this morning about why I fight so hard to do things differently in the planning and organizing and productivity space. base. And I really thought it was because I wanted to help scattered moms like me feel a little bit better about how their brain works and to give them tips and mindset shifts on how to work with their brains instead of against them. Because I always wanted you to feel some peace in your home.
And that is all still true. I do see that as my goal. But this morning, I realized over and over, I hear comments from you all like, I wasn't very productive today, or I didn't get anything done, or gosh, I felt busy, I'm exhausted. But if you look around my house, I have no idea what I did. It doesn't show that I worked so hard today. And that frustrates and saddens me so much.
Much because I feel like you get that message because traditional planners and organizers and productivity experts are telling you, you need to build your life around time blocks or task. Completions or consistent routines. And so when you can't do those things because your brain just doesn't work that way, you feel like a failure and you feel even worse.
You feel really frustrated by the interruptions because you're like, how am I ever going to get this done when this interrupts me and that interrupts me? Let's sit in a moment and think about what is it that's interrupting these so-called perfect plans and schedules. It's life. It's your kids. It's your spouse. It's your really good friend who calls up out of the blue because she's struggling with something. And you take the time to listen to her and hear her out.
Or your baby starts teething and she's not napping like she's supposed to. And now that carefully scheduled plan you were supposed to suddenly follow fell apart. Or your Your kid gets off the bus and they're bubbling up with all kinds of stories that they wanted to share with you. And you're like, uh-huh, uh-huh. Okay, go get this done. Go get that done. We have the next thing to get to. And you're missing life.
Why? Why are we building all of our systems and our plans and our productivity around tasks and inanimate objects that are still going to be there tomorrow, or even if they were clean today, are going to get messy tomorrow? And we're missing this very finite experience of when our kids are little, or we want to nurture the relationship with our spouse, or we have good friends that need to know we're there.
Why are we seeing them as interruptions instead of celebrating them as I need to build my life around them? And I need to start squeezing the tasks into the margins of the life I want to lead. I want us to flip that upside down in our heads. I want us to go to bed at night. And if we look around and there are dirty dishes and there are piles of laundry, instead of our brains going, I failed again. I can't keep up with anything.
To instead smile and pat yourself on the back and know that you chose wisely today. You chose to prioritize your kids, your friends, your family. You chose to put Put what was important above stuff. And that's so, so worthwhile. So I just want to say thank you, 200 plus episodes in. Thank you for letting me get this message out there.
And if you know anybody else who's struggling with how they see their home or how they can't get it together, to share my podcast, to share my message, to say, hey, you're prioritizing life. That's worthwhile. So please continue to choose joy.