Whether you want your work-life to be better because it is dragging you down or simply because you love to tweak and shine, there is a mistake that you may be making.
It is so easy - too easy - to start looking at more than one thing to improve at a time... with horrible results.
Let me give you an example of what happens...
Say you'd like to improve your organisation at work.
Your mind scans everything to see all the things that could benefit from organisation.
It sees your desk and puts it on the list, then it keeps scanning and adds...
* organising your inbox
* cleaning out all your draws
* colour coding your schedule
* actually, best organise your schedule better too
* then... oh the whole of my computer drive needs better organising
* ooh and your work wardrobe.
the list goes on, as is appropriate to your work type.
At this point the list feels overwhelming. Your mind starts to tell you that you can't do all that and that you'll never get organised, or have a better work-life.
Then, the pièce de résistance is the critical part of your brain chiming in with the moral failure of disorganisation.
"What kind of a person is disorganised", "How pathetic", "How embarrassing, why can't you be like such and such...".
Whatever upsetting hook it can get in to make you feel awful will be employed (it thinks it's helping).
In the end, your lovely intention of 'getting organised' has become brain warfare and you are left overwhelmed, hopeless and less likely to try for another goal.
Everyone really has to know my version of The Art of War* - mind management!
It makes everything so simple and clear.
The blessed relief of wanting to do something and getting to do it... ahhhh
One of the first steps is simply to choose ONE small thing at a time. Boring, eh? But satisfying to complete!
Join Smash It! to find out the rest and to start doing what you want to do!
Big love,
Lara xx
*Please note, I have never read The Art of War :)
Lara Corr, PhD Pronouns She/Her
Set Me Free Coaching
Get ready to love your work!
lara@setmefree.coach
