I used to imagine there wasn’t a degree in engaged on my home until I had a piece of time to spend on it, so I may actually make an influence.
I used to be incorrect. Utilizing Awkward Pauses to work on established routines has improved my home greater than ready for giant chunks of time to open up ever did.
Right here’s a narrative of utilizing an Awkward Pause:
My daughter knowledgeable me that she’d like to go away for college in 12 minutes. For y’all’s sake, I took an image of the clock and headed to dress.
“Getting dressed” didn’t take lengthy because it simply meant placing on yesterday’s lounge garments.
Again in the kitchen, I turned to my half-emptied dishwasher. I completed emptying it after which reloaded it with the sink filled with meals storage containers Hubby had discovered in a bag he’d introduced residence from work.
I took one other image. (For you.) 7:42.
That is when the pause bought actually awkward. I had eight minutes left, and the kitchen fundamentals have been achieved. I’ve TPAD (Time Passage Consciousness Dysfunction), so I’m not good at predicting how lengthy any given activity will take, however the most blatant factor to do was begin one other load of laundry because it was Laundry Day. The washer was open, and there was a pile of soiled garments ready to enter it.
I put the pile into the washer, added my very own soiled garments (that I hadn’t gathered when the remainder of the household sorted theirs the evening earlier than), and turned on the machine.
I took a horrible image of the clock, and it stated 7:45. (You’ll should belief me.)
There have been garments in the dryer, ready to be folded. It felt pointless to begin folding with solely 5 minutes, however they have been going to should be folded anyway. 5 minutes’ head begin couldn’t harm.
My different possibility was 5 minutes of not getting something achieved.
When it was time to go away for college, the degree of garments ready to be folded had gone from this to this:
I’ve talked on and on and on round right here about the worth of utilizing Awkward Pauses. I nonetheless resist them, as a result of they’re awkward.
However my home is best off as a result of I used this one. Similar to it’s all the time higher off after I spend an Awkward Pause getting stuff achieved as a substitute of standing round feeling awkward.
–Nony