Mindful Monday: Our Sanity Depends On It

As an adult, I'd like to think that I'm wiser than my younger self. I'd like to believe that I've learned lessons along the way. I'd also like to think that, at this point in my life, I realize that I don't have all the answers, and that my way isn't the only way. 

While I'd like to think of myself as "evolved" and not egocentric, I relate to this El Arroyo quote way too much. 

As a self diagnosed Type A, control freak, I find it terribly hard to delegate. At the same time, there are not enough hours in the day for me to single handedly handle "all the things". We were never meant to be on this journey alone, nor are we expected to do it all alone. 

Becoming a wife and mother has only added things to my plate, so I have been forced to delegate, forced to adjust my expectations, and learn to be okay with "good enough" sometimes. 

Here's the headline in all of this: My children folding and putting away their laundry doesn't make their clothes any less clean, perhaps more wrinkly - but it's still clean and put away. Letting my husband load the dishwasher, regardless if the space isn't utilized efficiently, still gets the dishes done. And when a co-worker offers to help, the task gets done regardless if it's not the way I would have gone about it. 

For our own sanity, we have to let others help! We have to delegate and let it be "just okay" sometimes. Being flexible is not just a skill, it's an essential skill to our sanity and survival.