System Hack!
1:45 Oct, 4
Okay so for any other systems out there I wanna start a list of tips for survival to also have in my book. Here's the first one: Alarms as grounding measures. I call it 'Alarming' an 'Alarming measure' or "setting an Alarming net"
I know most of us shy away from alarms because of PTSD and everything else but... let's say you're like me and your four year old attends preschool every week, cool! I will admit that over the years my family has found ways to help me parent and now; this week they are helping me grow. See my beautiful Mother more often than not takes her to pre-school. This week happens to be her first week of retirement she'll ever experience and simultaneously, never get to experience it again. I wouldn't want the stress either. I get it, four year olds are hard even when they happen to be a genius child and an absolute Godsend.
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Back to the hack:
I need to LEAVE the driveway to pick her up at 2:45 p.m
I NEED to be, in the car, with my infant at 2:45, also her schedual isn't a normal M-W-F either...It is however a beautiful academy filled with the Holy Spirit.. and her friends... and theres naptime..I hope her bedmat smells good... and I need to remember her lunch... do I have her lunch?.... AHH! You get it.
So I pick a very gentle alarm and set it for 2:30 and it says, on the screen (write this in the title section on an iOS device for this)
"Be in the car with baby at 2:45 to leave to pick up Jane from Pre-K Name"
Bada-bing! WHOEVER is fronting can understand that, and if they have questions about where it's directly in the title. Now I do the same for when I need to be in the car to drop her off in time as well. I also think ONE ALARM should be used for max efficiency in this grounding hack as to amplify significance, but if your system or any alters in it need to procrastinate then use multiple for sure.
You can use this hack for a wide variety of things as well and the more you get to know yourself through others you will be able to discern what tasks deem 'Alarming' and I gotta say, calling the technique 'Alarming' or 'self-alarming' totally takes power from that word and I loves it. One more example that I personally use it for is like, when I purity am fronting I've come to value coffee over medicating first ting in the morning so I will set an "Alarming net" that's titled:
"Did you take your (2) medications yet? if not do so ASAP :)"
Around 9:00 a.m. so I don't ruin my own day, anyone relate?
Hope this helps! All love,
Annabelle x