Sometimes you are just going to have a rough day. A day where that glamorous task you wrote down in the morning, just is not all that exciting. You lack the motivation to even start working on it. It felt good to put it down on the list, but in the back of your mind – you just knew you were not going to want to work on that today. A couple of suggestions when this comes up (because it did for me today)!
1. Know yourself. If today is going to be rough, and you are feeling unambitious – then you probably need to take stock of that. Figure out what is causing that feeling, and put that down on your task list. It could very well mean that you have pushed yourself too hard and taking a break and doing something to relax for a few hours maybe the most productive thing you could do. Rather then sitting and staring at the work you need to do (and effectively doing nothing but stressing yourself out) then deliberately and with purpose do something completely different that you would enjoy. You could also have something that really got you down or is messing with your productivity. Take that on instead. Fix what needs to be fixed!
2. If you do not want to do something – then don’t! I know what you are going to say. “I have to!” “My Boss wants me to!” “I am supposed to”. Yeah, I make all those statements too. However, really think about what you are committing your time to. This is the power of the 365 commitment. If you are spending your days in tasks you do not want to do – then you need to change. Prayerfully focus on what you could do to refocus your daily pursuit to be more in harmony with what you want to do, what your talents drive you to do. Why are you allowing trivial things bear down on you!? You created this situation. You may make excuses and say that it was forced on you (in some cases that maybe slightly true), but in most situations – YOUR LIFE IS PERFECTLY ARRANGED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU ARE GETTING!
Time to change. One step at a time, each day. Reward yourself by putting down a task that you actually want to do and feel ok about it. Do a bad job on bad tasks and maybe people will stop asking you to do them! Do a great job on great tasks and you will get more of them! I am oversimplifying of course – but there is truth here. You are doing what you are allowing yourself to do.
So stop creating a task list of what you have to do and create a list each morning of what you WANT to do.
Guy Reams (31)
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