Happy Monday! How is everyone doing? Realized that my tank was running precariously low, and decided to take a few mental health days devoted to working really hard on the stuff I had been kind of avoiding. I wrote a few weeks back about procrastination. Avoiding things is a cousin but has some of its own unique dysfunctional qualities. They both take a big toll on our energy. And it feels so good to acknowledge that which is scaring us... because, really, it is fear that is making us look away...hide.
So: hiding from things that we MUST do...taxes, hard conversations, bills, the amount of a particular substance we may or may not be overdoing... basically, not dealing with things, and pretending that they don't exist. At all. Procrastination, the cousin, is the more acceptable, perhaps, as an internal dialogue: I see you and I will get to you EVENTUALLY, however, I first must do....XYZ and and a partridge in a pear tree.
Facing things feels good. It can feel scary, but I guarantee it feels a lot better than the shame that comes with hiding or the guilt that accompanies procrastinating.
I LOVE Mondays for addressing anything that I have been avoiding. It is a great start to the week.
How to start?
Nike did not make a zillion dollars and launch an entire culture just with sneakers. The tagline, "Just do it" is probably the most empowering secular call to action that anyone has ever heard. In terms of getting on with your proverbial back catalogue of unfiled and unresolved shit, I can think of no better mantra. And no more succinct instruction manual. By this time in life, we know what to do.
Make the call...
Acknowledge the issue.
Formulate a plan.
Accept responsibility
Stop blaming and ALL excuses
Realize the cavalry is not coming
Reflect on what has worked in the past to get to goal
Reflect on what has not worked
Be relentlessly honest with yourself. And with others.
Practice radical love and forgiveness to yourself.
Just do it.
One Love xo
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