FlexiLingo
Ep. 265: You're Not Behind...But Here's What's Really Happening
Send us Fan Mail You wake up already thinking. Before your feet even hit the floor, you've made twenty decisions. What needs to happen today. Who has an appointment. Did I text my mom back. What's for dinner. I forgot to send that email. I should work out today. I need to remember. I can't forget. Before you've poured your coffee, you've already spent part of yourself. Not your time. Your attention. Your patience. Your emotional energy. Your focus. And somewhere around dinner, exhausted, wondering why you...
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Well, picture this. You wake up already thinking. Before your feet even hit the floor, you've made 20 decisions. What needs to happen today? Who has an appointment? Did I text my mom back? What's for dinner? I forgot to send that email. I should work out today. I need to remember. I can't forget. But before you've poured your coffee, you've already spent part of yourself. Not your time, your attention, your patience, your emotional energy, your focus, in addition to your time. And somewhere around dinner time, you're exhausted.
And you're wondering why you didn't get everything done. And you tell yourself the same thing that you always tell yourself. I just need to get more organized. I just need a better routine.
I just need to try harder. Can I tell you something? If you're not getting your list of things to do, it's not that you're behind. Something else is happening, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. I'm guessing you've probably tried, at one point in your life, the color-coded calendar. Perhaps the 5 a.m. wake-up call, the productivity app that promised to finally get you organized, and maybe some of it helped for a week or maybe two, but then the exhaustion, it always came back.
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