| Surprise! You are a Consumerist With Your TIME! | Why You Have "Too Much to Do"

hi guys I'm Sarah Fagan I am with Zahra PhD comm I'm the author of minimalist homeschooling and the creator of simple as it is smart and today I am talking about our time and specifically how we are consumerist swith our time and hear me out because you may be non materialistic when it comes to physical belongings you may feel like you're pretty frugal but then suddenly when we start talking about our time we realize that we do carry some consumerist mindset traits so let's first of all identify what those look like number one keeping up with the Joneses this is probably the one you think of first right this idea that we look at what everybody else has we may not care what kind of car the neighbor is driving but suddenly when we start homeschooling we really care about what everybody else is doing right suddenly we want to know what everybody else is doing in their home schools and we want to compare that to our own home schools and this is a very consumerist mindset it's keeping up with the Joneses second of all and the other consumerist mindset though that we see is living on the brink of your resources and in this case I'm not just talking about your money although that is a thing living paycheck to paycheck and spending your money as soon as you get it but we all do also do the same thing with our time and our energy we spend every little bit of it that we have we don't keep any in reserves too often and that leaves us feeling stressed and depleted and with our time sometimes we live beyond our means let's be honest sometimes we over schedule and we spend more time than we have and then we try to figure out why we can't get it all done right and so the next way that we have a consumerist mindset is that we want at all and in the case of our time we want to do it all the grass is greener there's this new bright and shiny thing and is the opposite of being content with what we already have it's looking for more and more and more and more right and number four feeling like there's never enough this scarcity the sense of scarcity right that we don't have enough we don't have enough time we wish we had more time why can't I get it all done this is a very whereas mine said about our time and so when I talk about minimalist homeschooling there's this idea that we live in a temporal space and a physical space and it's possible for us to hoard and have clutter not just in our physical belongings but also in how we spend our time I would love to hear in the comments which one of these sort of resonates with you because I have been guilty of all four I have looked around and compared at what everybody else is doing and compared that to my own schedule I have seen new bright and shiny things and wanted to do it all I have over scheduled and lived beyond my means when it comes to my time and I have also fallen prey to feeling like there is just not enough time when in reality we all have enough time to do the most important things so when we change our mindset it becomes so much easier to change how we homeschool to be really intentional with our time okay so stuff comes in different forms it doesn't just refer to physical stuff there's also the doing of life that can clutter our lives and clutter our minds and create a lot of overwhelm and stress and a feeling of lack of control and the biggest issue I see here is that we get so concerned about whether there will be enough time that we don't enjoy the time we have does this describe you how often do I see this people can't enjoy the minutes and the moments that they have because they are so worried about whether there will be enough minutes to do all the things that they have planned right and so we turn into drill sergeants and so we can lead this charge to stop glorifying busyness and exhaustion somewhere along the line somebody started glorifying mothers burning the candle at both ends and I would like this to stop because there is a cost to doing too much right there is a cost to our peace there is a cost to our happiness there's a cost to our relationships there's a cost to my clean laundry right my laundry doesn't get done if I schedule too much that's what's gonna fall off and so my question to you is when you over schedule what falls off right and if it's your please stop scheduling things that are not more important than your peace of mind because your peace does have a value and our time has a value all right I talked a lot about time go ahead and click on the next video I have queued up here for you if you want to talk more about your time in your home school and go ahead and subscribe so that you get all of my videos because this is a topic that's near and dear to my heart I also have links and the commentary details below so I will see more of you soon and until then I am wishing you all the simple things bye guys

Channel: Zara PhD

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Keywords: minimalist homeschooling, minimal homeschool, simple homeschool, homeschool planning, homeschool schedule, easy homeschool, zara phd, simple is the new smart, minimalist homeschool, minimal homeschooling, intentional homeschool, easy homeschool planning

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Length: 4min 59sec (299 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 31 2019