Take stock in your life. You always have the capacity to change things for the better. What will you do or not do given this awareness?
—Calm App Reflection
Have you done it yet? Have you stepped or leaped into the new year with boundless energy to better your world?
If not, you’re not alone. Many folks are still digging out of all the e-mails and work that piled up over the holidays and feel they haven’t even gotten out of the starting blocks.
What to do when “the hurried-er you go the behind-er you seem to get”?
Something dramatic has to happen to get your head above water and swim for the shore of the life you envision.
EXERCISE:
Try a brain dump exercise: List all the personal and professional to-dos that fill up and spill over your days.
Keep asking yourself “What Else?” until you get everything down.
Let this list sit for a day and dig some more.
Consider asking those close to you for their additional thoughts.
Once this list is complete, it can be managed, using a sorting strategy using the words More, Less, Start, and Stop.
It’s within the Less and Stop clutter in your world that you can make room for the Mores and Starts that will put you back in the driver’s seat to take your life where you want to go.
