Love the idea of creating flexibility for high vs low energy days. It’s nice (and motivating) to feel good about what you’ve accomplished even when you’re feeling sloth-y for whatever reason.
Yes! You've nailed it, Lindsey. It's so motivating. I'm personally a recovering perfectionist, so it's in my nature to dismiss any sort of success if not absolutely perfect. Reframing goals for how I'm actually feeling is just one step in celebrating me for being me (and also, celebrating myself for allowing that to happen in the first place).
To answer your question, there are certain routines which I have optimised and shortened the heck out of, and used all the hacks in the book like environmental design, but I still keep failing.
These are the things where I have to accept that the routine or plan has accomplished what it could and now it is my turn to put in the work, instead of hoping that I can keep modifying things to somehow skip the ‘work’ part of it, or at least find a way that the work part NEVER sucks.
I also wanted to say thank you for sharing when the system stopped working that well for you. I used to read and watch so much self help where the expert made you think that once they figured it out, they never failed again! And I used to think that maybe I am the problem!
"These are the things where I have to accept that the routine or plan has accomplished what it could and now it is my turn to put in the work, instead of hoping that I can keep modifying things to somehow skip the ‘work’ part of it, or at least find a way that the work part NEVER sucks." --> this is SO real!!! like -- i planned the thing...now I actually have to DO it?!
And yes - I am firmly not a self help guru or whatever, because I'm too honest. I too have felt that way, like I am the problem, but maybe we're just not supposed to live so rigidly.
Yes this! AND what barriers can you remove to make your MVP even more MVPer? We have two bathrooms so we have two toilet brushes, two toilet bowl cleaners, and two stashes of toilet paper. I want to draw more, so I made my drawing supplies ultra portable so I can do it from wherever. And if I miss days, yolo, I'm sure I was doing something else I needed. I'm not a machine who can execute commands daily - even our workflows in tech fail sometimes ;)
Love the idea of creating flexibility for high vs low energy days. It’s nice (and motivating) to feel good about what you’ve accomplished even when you’re feeling sloth-y for whatever reason.
Yes! You've nailed it, Lindsey. It's so motivating. I'm personally a recovering perfectionist, so it's in my nature to dismiss any sort of success if not absolutely perfect. Reframing goals for how I'm actually feeling is just one step in celebrating me for being me (and also, celebrating myself for allowing that to happen in the first place).
I love it when we can give ourselves a break and I definitely hear that here. ❣️
Ah I was waiting for this one to drop!
To answer your question, there are certain routines which I have optimised and shortened the heck out of, and used all the hacks in the book like environmental design, but I still keep failing.
These are the things where I have to accept that the routine or plan has accomplished what it could and now it is my turn to put in the work, instead of hoping that I can keep modifying things to somehow skip the ‘work’ part of it, or at least find a way that the work part NEVER sucks.
I also wanted to say thank you for sharing when the system stopped working that well for you. I used to read and watch so much self help where the expert made you think that once they figured it out, they never failed again! And I used to think that maybe I am the problem!
"These are the things where I have to accept that the routine or plan has accomplished what it could and now it is my turn to put in the work, instead of hoping that I can keep modifying things to somehow skip the ‘work’ part of it, or at least find a way that the work part NEVER sucks." --> this is SO real!!! like -- i planned the thing...now I actually have to DO it?!
And yes - I am firmly not a self help guru or whatever, because I'm too honest. I too have felt that way, like I am the problem, but maybe we're just not supposed to live so rigidly.
Yes this! AND what barriers can you remove to make your MVP even more MVPer? We have two bathrooms so we have two toilet brushes, two toilet bowl cleaners, and two stashes of toilet paper. I want to draw more, so I made my drawing supplies ultra portable so I can do it from wherever. And if I miss days, yolo, I'm sure I was doing something else I needed. I'm not a machine who can execute commands daily - even our workflows in tech fail sometimes ;)
YES! the two bathroom thing is huge - we do the same.