Tag: Procastination

When overwhelmed, ask your self:

“If I choose to worry on this, is it taking me closer to my goal? Does it bring me closer to my mission, my calling?”

If the answer is no, remember that you are likely to have a goal in mind. A mission in life to fulfill. A calling that you know are meant to do.

Do something around any of them. Any effort while minimal at first, it’s one step closer towards them.

Sometimes we forget that there are things we can do to better ourselves and meet our goals.

Lately, my default has been distracting myself with everything and anything but the things that matter to me.

It is a subtle build up.

Then, those acts of avoidance turn into a momentary habit. There is the feeling of unease that turns into negative feelings.

Then I ask myself why I feel like that at times. Funny how that works as I write this.

Getting a small win is better than being idle in overwhelm.

While quiet time and relaxation is important to reset, having too much unstructured “free time” without intention can be overwhelming. Almost counter-intuitive.

When I plan to relax without a plan or set intention for what that entails, chaos starts knocking my door.

When this happens, I try to be the observer for one second.

I recall my purpose, my goals, my mission. Remembering them gives me hope, drive, and something to focus on.

I write this to remind myself that I do have time for the tasks and steps towards my why. If I gave myself permission and do it.

I need to write a plan of action first for a few minutes. For structure but that’s a personal approach.

Writing an outline and act on it. It is not exhaustive, the goal is to keep me on task and in sequence.

My goals are many, one of them is to write more and better. I want to materialize my thinking and connect my thoughts.

I used to write constantly until I did not. For me it provided many benefits.

I think the more I started focusing on other endeavors, the less I wrote.

I focused that energy in other pursuits that likely took me away from my why.

If you have free time and feel overwhelmed, do a single task towards your why. That can be the best thing you and I did today.

Embrace the moment and start doing it.

There’s is no perfect time or setting. You make the time and create the setting that facilitates the thing that drives you.

Don’t let that “waiting for that perfect time” or “I don’t have time” to do what really matters stop you.

If you cannot devote 10 minutes to yourself, time management is not the issue. You know what to do.

On productivity,

Ernesto