Would You Do This For Them?

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Would you do this for them? You do the school drop off, you take them to practice, you cheer

them at their recitals, the games, the competitions, you volunteer to coach, to shaperone to bake,

you help them with their science project, their book reports, their math homework.

Maybe you even help them clean their room and organize their stuff. You do all of this for them.

Of course you do. They're your kids. But when do you make time to do the things that you need to do,

the things that you want to tackle and clear out and fix up and organize? Because those things

start to weigh you down. They pile up, whether it's in your closet or in your garage,

that box you've been meaning to go through, that room in your house, it's just become a dumping

ground. You don't prioritize time for yourself and for these things because maybe you think it's

selfish or maybe because you think you don't have the time because you're constantly exhausted with

how much you have to do. But your kids need you at your best. Not the version of you that's weighed

down and distracted by everything mentally and physically. They need you to be refreshed.

They need the organized version of you, the one who is present,

is able to actually be there for them. So if you want to get your house in order,

if you want to get your life decluttered, if you want to get rid of what's weighing you down,

if you want to get to that thing you've been putting off, that thing you've been staring down every

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