Within my daily environment I have many, many factors and people which are supportive to me!
First and second is my emotional and physical support. I receive this support from two main sources. I combine emotional and physical because these two people are who do both for me! They support me emotional, as well as, physically with completing things that need done.
In my personal life is my husband. He is my best friend and who I share everything that happens in my life. He is the first person I want to tell when I am happy and excited and the first one I want to talk to if I am having a rough day and need a shoulder to cry upon. He helps me focus on the positive and figure out how to overcome the negative by talking it through with me. Physically, he runs the house while I am at work and ensures all household tasks are complete. With us having three kids, four goats, two dogs, two snakes and a turtle… that is a LOT of tasks. Having him is KEY to my work and home success. If he wasn’t there to support me at home while I was at work, then I would constantly be worrying about the kids and what they were doing. The way we have it set up now, I am free to concentrate on my career, while knowing my kids and home are taken care of amazingly!
In my professional life is my assistant Rose. She is who I count on to help me get through the day at work. She helps get me through rough days and understands the successes we have like no one else! She makes sure we get everything on our to-do list marked off and helps me not feel like I am doing it all alone! Without her emotional and physical support I would have a much harder time running my center. I would have to work longer hours and would not be near as effective. I would have much more emotional stress because I wouldn’t have that person who understands what you are talking about when it’s been a rough work day!
Second is my practical support. First and foremost would be my laptop! VERY closely following would be my cell phone. Those two things are BY FAR my top two practical support needs. They are my communication, my agenda. They are how I reach out and run my business, as well as, my home and even my school life! Without either of them I would struggle to get anything done and be productive at all.
If I were to imagine myself in a challenge I would imagine being a stay at home mom with my husband in the Army and deployed. I lived that life for 15 years, so it is easy for me to imagine. In that situation I would have different emotional, practical, and physical supports to rely upon. It is even different ones then I needed 10 years ago when I was going through that!
Emotionally, I would need a best friend that understood what I was going through. Preferably another wife whose husband had been deployed or was deployed, so she could understand what I was going through. That would allow me to really vent and not feel judged by my thoughts. Being surrounded by family would be helpful as well. Someone who loved me and knew I might need extra patience and could tell how I was feeling and knew how to make it better. Without either one of those it would feel very isolating and would be easy to spiral into a depression.
Practically, I would need however I was communicating with my husband because that would feel like my lifeline. I would also need my yarn and crochet hook, that is my getaway, my relaxation, my time to think. Those things would be very key because without them I would be extra stressed which would effect me emotionally and physically too!
Physically, I would need an occasional babysitter to help out with the kids for appointments and an occasional break. I would also need a mechanic to take care of the oil changes and car ‘stuff’ my husband normally does!
Tiff's Blog 