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Every morning, my kids (the two still at home — the oldest is in college) wake up at 5:45 a.m., get ready for school, make themselves a healthy breakfast and leave the house on time to get to school (my middle son drives, so he leaves extra early to avoid traffic; my youngest son catches the bus).<\/p>\n
I stay in bed. I was never an early-morning person anyway, and with all the stress of the past couple years, I couldn\u2019t sleep and would be too exhausted to get up. I\u2019d lay there feeling so incredibly grateful that my late husband and I, somehow, did a good job in letting the boys develop self-discipline. (I write \u2018letting them\u2019 and not \u2018helping them\u2019 because<\/span>\u00a0by not over-managing our children, the kids get to exercise and strengthen their willpower \u2018muscle,\u2019 which is responsible for self-discipline.<\/b><\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong; it took me a while to stop feeling guilty about not fitting the usual definition of a \u2018supermom,\u2019 which would mean getting up before them to make them breakfast and pack healthy lunches for them. (And then begin my day with exercising, praying\/ meditating and journaling – looking all put together like in those pretty Pinterest posts.) Realizing they needed me to be healthy more than they needed a picture of a \u2018supermom,\u2019 beautifully packed baby carrots and whole wheat sandwiches, I employed my willpower and self-discipline to stay in bed, sleep and allow my heart and my body to heal. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n That’s the thing with willpower and discipline – it takes both self-awareness AND grit.\u00a0<\/span>We need to discern when to push through, and when to stop, rest and get replenished.\u00a0<\/b>Last year was not the time for me to play tough. I was in the process of healing, and I used my willpower to get me through it with gratitude and love. This year however, I’m back to a lot more disciplined and structured days.<\/span><\/p>\n And the kids? I was there to love them through it – providing a support system without which it\u2019s a lot harder to have willpower. I allowed them to rest after school and on the weekends (by not putting more responsibilities on them) and made a nutritious meal each day to replenish their energy and their souls.<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, I read a few articles and watched a TEDx talk by Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal and author of \u201cThe Willpower Instinct.\u201d Here are a few of her tips on willpower and self-discipline:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hope this inspires you!<\/p>\n Now, enjoy a restful weekend and replenish yourself before you get back to your disciplined and driven work week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.98″] CONNECT WITH ME<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”3.0.98″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|||370px”][et_social_follow icon_style=”flip” icon_shape=”rounded” icons_location=”top” col_number=”auto” outer_color=”dark”][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.98″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_code _builder_version=”3.0.98″][inf_infusionsoft_inline optin_id=”optin_5″][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.98″ custom_padding=”7px|0px|49px|0px”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.98″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.98″ text_font_size=”18px” background_layout=”light”] \u201cMy theme for this year is discipline, so any words of encouragement on that would be appreciated\u201d – Linda Every morning, my kids (the two still at home — the oldest is in college) wake up at 5:45 a.m., get ready for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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