Making Time and Secret Garden Music Moves Me

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Monday Music Moves Me, Motivational Monday

making time

Photo taken with Canon 650D and edited in Picasa

Many a time we hear or give the reason that there is simply not enough time or there is too many things to be done. You want to spend time with your family but at the same time yearn for some Me time and chance to socialize with your friends. You feel like your hands are tied and maybe frustrated that you my have to trade up one for the other. This doesn’t need to be the case.

I strongly feel that there will be sufficient time to do whatever things we desire as long as we know how to plan and prioritize. No doubt we may be limited by our finances or resources at the moment but I still feel that it is possible to maximize the moment. You only need to take action and remove all the time wasting activities that you have sucking up the seconds and hours each day.

Deleting and removing time wasters and non -effective methods of handling situations does wonders for adding back the precious seconds and minutes into your day. I have been doing that for the past year and cut off a lot of unnecessary items/people from my circle and daily routine.

I believe that you will NEVER have enough time unless you consciously make an effort to MAKE time. What better time then NOW to make the changes.

How are you going to MAKE Time?

This week’s theme is a freebie and I am sharing one of the songs in the Korean Drama series- Secret Garden which is currently showing on the television.

July 16, 2012

Climbing Up and other Monday Memes

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts Monday Music Moves Me, Motivational Mondays

Doggie boy and me

Encouraging Doggie boy from the side as he makes his way up the wall.

During the weekend we brought the boys rock climbing. Pamela, a fellow mom from SMB had kindly arranged for us to have an afternoon rock climbing at Beyond Acadamics. (I’ll do a detailed write up of the place later this week). The boys and I had fun rock climbing. R too did join in and it was a great family activity. It was the first time that R and I tried rock climbing.

I feel that it is important that we show the kids that it is possible to strive for things even though it looks difficult and may seem impossible. I believe that a kid learns better or is more motivated to do things if parents actively participate in it instead of just cheering by the sidelines.

Monkey boy managed to go all way up by himself but Doggie boy decided to call it a day halfway through. Nevertheless it was a good effort on his part to attempt the wall. Good job!! Maybe the next time we try rock climbing he would be able to progress further up the wall.

If you were wondering what Tiger girl was doing while the rest of the family was rock climbing she was busy playing with the kiddy rides which belonged to the kids who lived at that house. She enjoyed herself on both the car and the bike the whole 2.5hrs we were there.

Tiger girl driving around

How do you motivate your kids?

Another piece of motivational news came in today. Dominique’s Desk is now listed on an APP.

We can be found under the Kids and Parenting section of Singtel’s new Newsloop- Singapore News App which was launched last week. You can download the free app from Itunes.