What if you could minimize the tasks triggering dread and massive amounts of procrastination?
Chances are the last few days (or weeks) have been productive chaos – with the opportunity to finally tackle the things we’ve been putting off until things slowed down. In the best ways, some of us may be getting exactly what we needed: more time with family, time to focus on some of the finer details or cooking or taking care of ourselves, and fewer appointments or plans. But it certainly didn’t look like this in our minds, did it?
Maybe you’re knocking things off your list with ferocity. Maybe you’re dutifully doing everything but to avoid them. Maybe there are things that never even made it on the list… but every time you open that program or want to get a related task done, it pops up in your mind. “Oh, I’ve got to fix that. Get to that. Do something about that.”
These little silent inconveniences build up, provide friction to our days, slow us down. And worse? They’re cumulative, banding together to turn our post-caffeine, shiny-eyed enthusiasm into a sludge around our feet that brings back traumatic memories of Atreyu and his horse.*
So where to begin? Just start noticing those moments of resistance. What have you been putting off? What drags you down at even the thought of doing it?
(Full transparency: yup, mine’s been Instagram. Working through it!)