September is National Self-Care Awareness Month and the podcast this week continues to discuss this important topic. Rayna Neises, ACC, host, reflects on the thoughts shared during last week’s interview with Nicole Kalil. She expands on the suggestion Nicole provided regarding time management and reframing it to be choice management and learning how to make choices that will allow you to feel better about the job that you are doing:
- Make an active choice to create a life that you Love and that you are happy with.
- Create time for rest and reflect. You will have to choose to do it.
- When you have Clarity around what is important to you, making choices with your time is easier and brings contentment to your life.
- Create a personal manifesto to help make decisions with your time.
- Get your free download of the core values review at www.aseasonofcaring.com/podcastvorevalues.
- Incorporate pre-deciding to avoid decision fatigue and to be prepared for what is to come.
- Recognize that your ‘yes’ has consequences.
Rayna Neises understands the joys and challenges that come from a season of caring. She helped care for both of her parents during their separate battles with Alzheimer’s over a thirty-year span. She is able to look back on those days now with no regrets – and she wishes the same for everyone caring for aging parents.
Rayna is the author of No Regrets: Hope for Your Caregiving Season, an ICF certified coach, the host of “A Season of Caring” podcast, Positive Approach® to Care (PAC)Independent Certified Trainer and speaker who is passionate about offering encouragement, support, and resources for regret-free caring aimed at preventing family caregivers from aimlessly wandering through this important season of life.
Rayna lives on a farm in southeast Kansas with her husband, Ron, and small pack of adorable dogs. She is the baby of her family, but most would never guess that. She is a former teacher who enjoys crafts of all kinds and spending time with her grandkids most of all.
