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Stop measuring yourself. Your results don't define you as a mom or as an individual.
Are you living your mission? Are the things on your to-do list, from laundry to leftovers, part of your life's calling and purpose?
We live in a culture and time in which everything is measured, starting with our very first day of school. But the scope of a human spirit can't be shoved or fit nicely into a little box marked "Mom" on the top.
We have to live our most authentic sense of self, letting go of what we know we're not, even if it's what others want us to be.
As my friend and mentor Rachel DeMille once wrote:
"Being on "my mission" is not some high road I aspire to. It's what I do every day. My mistakes are part of my mission. My slumps are part of my mission. My setbacks are part of my mission.
I don't define being on the right track by what impact it make on others; that's not my responsibility. I define it by me doing the right thing right now, and the next right thing after that."
Mission, not measurement.
Let's leave our hyperfocus on results behind and get on with what we should be doing today. Our families and the world need us.
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