I don’t have enough fingers and toes combined to count my best intentions. Perhaps you will join me in acknowledging that there are many things I have intended to do, even begun doing with much gusto only to a huge road block. The road block I am most faced with comes in the form of the a wrinkly grey brick between my ears.<\/p>\n
When I first realized this I began to wrestle with my state of activity. That is I often beat myself up for being lazy and this created an unhealthy “work till you drop” mindset (which I still give into a lot). Working harder and being hard on myself still never seemed to help me achieve what I had set out to do. That was when I really started listening to my internal conversation. One thing kept creeping back up over and over.<\/p>\n
My mind consistently misrepresents the tasks at hand. Let say my intention is to blog once a week. I start off with this simple goal and have a plan to write my post each Monday. Monday roles around and my to-do list is quite full. I know I have set out to write a blog post, but it seems to be the easiest thing to bump on a busy schedule. A normal frustration for me would be to stress out and say “I am way too busy.” Or on the other hand to say I am lazy. Surely there is something else I can give up to get that blog post written. I get tired of all of this and give up on writing the blog post. Lately, though I have been trying to listen to really what is being said. Instead of the previous conversation I find I am saying “It will take an hour to write a blog post think of all the things you could do with that hour.” Others might say “It will take 3 hours to clean the house or 4 hours to mow the yard.” Ridiculous amounts of time to do what I set out to do.\u00a0 Most of my internal excuses deal with time there are some others.<\/p>\n
I find it quite a relief to realize I am not as busy I thought and also that I am not lazy either. Have you ever caught your thoughts sabotaging your productivity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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