Is there something you’ve been meaning to do, but you can’t seem to do it?
You keep putting this task off, for one reason or the next.
You know this thing will wear away at you, though, until you finally do it.
The effort made to avoid a task could be better used to make it happen.
Best to free up your energy by putting your list in the past.
Here’s how to do it, in five easy steps:
- Make a list of five tasks you’ve been putting off.
- Order the tasks from least to most dreaded, with 1 being the easiest to handle, and 5 being the task you’re dreading the most.
- Assign a task to the next five days, starting tomorrow, and going in this order: 1, 3, 5, 4, 2. This means you do the hardest task (5) on Day 3. Assign a time to the task each day.
- Every day, do the assigned task at the required time.
- If you don’t do the task, move on to the next task the following day.
- Assess how you feel after completing the task. Assess how you feel if you don’t complete the task.
If you completed the task, do you feel lighter, freer, more capable? Are you proud of yourself? Did you realize it wasn’t even that hard to do that which you dreaded?
If you didn’t do what you had planned: how does it feel to have it hovering about? Perhaps it isn’t the right time for you to take a particular action. Sometimes it’s better to wait on something. Trust your gut feeling.
No matter how many tasks you got to this week, next week – start again.
Even if you didn’t get to all five of this week’s tasks; put them on next week’s list, and start again.
When you finally tackle the toughest items, ask yourself: how did that feel? Was it so bad? Is it better to have it behind me? How was the timing of my action?
And the following day – start again.
