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How many times have you promised yourself that you would do something you really wanted to do, either for yourself or your children, AS SOON AS you _________ (finished everyone's laundry, cleaned the bathrooms, paid all the bills, etc), only to find that at the end of the day you never quite got around to the desired activity? Does this sound familiar?
If it does, you may be suffering from "as soon as" syndrome, a common ailment among moms, especially those with perfectionist tendencies who don't feel like they should take time for the fun stuff until everything else is done.
There's nothing wrong with delayed gratification, of course, as long as the gratification part actually does happen at some point. The problem is when the to-do list ends up trumping everything else, so that the activities that would make you feel renewed and happy stay just out of reach, always in the near future but never now.
Here are some common examples of how you may be sabotaging your good...
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