A coaching client mentioned today how frustrated she was that she hasn’t been spending enough quality time with her son.
She explained that every time she has been with him recently, she felt busy and tied up doing life things: cleaning, meal prepping, scheduling, etc…
I told her: rather than have this distracted need to be done with all the life things before she brought a quality time task to her son, maybe she could find ways to bring quality into the life things.
I told her: quality time isn’t a task; it’s a state of mind.
And the reality is: it’ll never all be done!
The key is to meet yourself where you are, let curiosity arise in the current situation, and find ways to playfully engage a quality into the time.