Tag: Productivity
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I gave up indecision
Hello, I am indecisive. This has been my plight for years. I have been that person who just closed her eyes and waved her finger over a menu to finally make a choice, and then regret it and try to switch yet again. I have struggled for years, so much so that I started to…
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Moving from to-do lists to focus items
Yesterday, I wrote on my dry erase board, “Take out the recycling.” At that moment, I was going to take out the recycling. That was it. No, don’t stop and pick up the sock on the floor. That wasn’t on the list. I went back inside and wrote the next thing, “Make the bed.” Don’t…
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More traffic, more reflections on my life
Traffic gives me a lot of time to think. Mostly about how horrible everyone else is as a driver. As I approached the interchange, traffic slowed. Everything was backed up as people tried to switch lanes. Often times, they hold up multiple lanes as they tried to switch from the left most lane over 4…
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The clutter I hold on to
My anxiety increases each time I see the clutter. I know that I need to do a deep clean, but I keep putting it off. I pushed back doing a closet cleanout until I completed a fitness challenge. Then, I never completed it. I put off getting rid of the old school work because I…
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Discipline as an act of self-love
In the hopes of getting a head start on the rest of the world who will wait until January, I decided I would start working on my health and fitness goals now. Except I don’t really feel like it. All I really want to do is lie about eating cookies, watching YouTube videos I won’t…
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Unless you’re a martial artist…
Unless you’re a martial artist: Stop making your next move dependent on what everyone else is doing. Think to yourself, does it really matter that x is doing y? (Or bluntly, what your ex happens to be doing, for those who need to hear it.) For instance, say all of your friends are already married…
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Before calling yourself lazy…
In this culture of productivity and hustle, it can be easy to get in to the habit of comparing yourself to others and thinking about what they have accomplished that you haven’t. I had been feeling completely inadequate. I had been feeling like there was no hope that I could take my career to a…
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You don’t need discipline. You need hope.
As I laid on the couch, getting on my own case about all the things I have left undone, all the items of my to-do list still not checked, and the disarray of my home, I lamented my laziness. Getting up and walking outside, trying to get myself to do something, it hit me. “You…
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