It\u2019s never easy getting back into the swing of things after\nbeing away for a period of time. These\nlast several weeks I traveled down to St. George to speak at a business conference,\nthen I went immediately down to Lake Powell to host a group on our houseboat\nfor over a week, and then I went from there right out to Colorado Springs for a\nfour day philanthropy conference. I returned home just in time to host an\nextended family gathering on Fourth of July at my home and then take my own family\nto Stadium of Fire (the largest firework show in the country) where we saw Keith\nUrban perform. Then over this weekend my grandbaby Magnolia (Maggie for short)\nwas blessed in church and afterwards we hosted another big extended family\ngathering. But even before going out of\ntown for several weeks I\u2019d been out of pocket helping care for my father-in-law\nwith his back injury. So I\u2019ve really been away for a good six weeks from\neverything, which makes the thought of trying to jump back into things tomorrow\nterrifying. I can\u2019t even fathom the\namount of email and texts and phone messages I\u2019m going to be facing tomorrow\u2026I\u2019m\nnot even sure where to begin catching up there is so much I\u2019m behind on\u2026 deep\nbreaths\u2026don\u2019t panic\u2026whatever\u2026I\u2019m definitely panicking! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only way to get back into the swing of things is to start.\nStart with a step, and if a step seems overwhelming (which in my case after\nbeing away for six weeks, it does\u2026) then take the advice shared in this quote:<\/p>\n\n\n
“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life. Tip-toe if you must, but take the step.\u201d<\/span> -Unknown <\/p>\n Tip-toe it is! I\u2019ll get started with a tip-toe tomorrow and then work my way up from there. That thought feels a little less overwhelming. And one other trick I\u2019ve found that helps me keep my spirits up when I\u2019m having to get back into the swing of things is to get the next exciting event on my calendar now so I can start looking forward to it. That will help you stay focused on the happy as you have to get back to work again.<\/p>\n Have an AWESOME day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s never easy getting back into the swing of things after being away for a period of time. These last several weeks I traveled down to St. George to speak at a business conference, then I went immediately down to Lake Powell to host a group on our houseboat for over a week, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,4875,21473,16065,9881,407,14614,21470,6397,19932],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-back-to-work","tag-getting-back-into-the-swing-of-things","tag-going-back-to-work","tag-holiday-weekend","tag-overwhelmed","tag-take-the-first-step","tag-tip-toe-if-you-must","tag-vacation-time","tag-what-awesome-looks-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11380,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions\/11380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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