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Let's say you're one of these people: 1) Perceives there to be many Things to juggle, 2) Feels overwhelmed by All The Things, and therefore 3) Ends up scattered and skimming around rather than doing the things, and so 4) Reinforces (1) How do you manage/interrupt that cycle?
@m_ashcroft 5 minutes: take a pen and list out everything you can think of on a piece of paper. if you can't think of it, it's not that important 5m: identify the ONE most important thing 5m: write down why you're scared to do it 5m: face the fear with kindness and get it done
@m_ashcroft I can get into more detail about the project management of doing the thing itself, but having talked to hundreds of people about this, that's almost never the issue. the issue is the fear of the the most important task
@visakanv @m_ashcroft This kind of explicit 20m exercise is great. I’m also having great results (faster + deeper alignment) doing it non-verbally. Instead of managing the process consciously, just let my brain sync, and it “does stuff” (including confronting fear), and I just wait for sth to arise. https://t.co/wZE3IpMlQn
@m_ashcroft Every time I notice myself overwhelmed, unsure what to do, I remind myself this is NOT my job to figure out! And I just sort of sit there and chill and allow my brain to /non-verbally figure it out/, and moments later, I get these chills, feel aligned, and know what to do. https://t.co/GXriVP1NqJ
@m_ashcroft *bold declaration incoming* I, too, struggle with this. https://t.co/GgMhTo93mz
@m_ashcroft My favourite solution by far is not worrying about it. . . . get it? Not-worrying. Non-worrying. (cf. wei-wu-wei, non-doing, Inner Game of Tennis) https://t.co/FdTkybIKs1
@m_ashcroft Every time I notice myself overwhelmed, unsure what to do, I remind myself this is NOT my job to figure out! And I just sort of sit there and chill and allow my brain to /non-verbally figure it out/, and moments later, I get these chills, feel aligned, and know what to do. https://t.co/GXriVP1NqJ
@m_ashcroft Before, I would have tried to verbally/consciously prioritise. But it never really worked well. It felt effortful, and there still wasn’t full buy-in from my brain. This non-verbal way of synchronising my mind is waay faster and feels way more fun (if a bit weird).
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs said she has a similar mechanism. I suspect we all do. Our job, with our consciousness, is just to guide our attention to the right inputs (the task list), and let our minds figure out the rest. When the feelings stop, I stop what I’m doing too. https://t.co/u5zHbhwi7i
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs fyi doesn’t hurt to use @CompliceGoals https://t.co/gjl9Fwu63u
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals I endorse this. All you need to do—consciously—is attend to the task. The rest is downhill. https://t.co/G3eRPDQFng
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals You are your friend! Be not the hurried child. https://t.co/ZsO79ZQZw0
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals > So you have urgent things to do? Yes. > But you don’t feel their urgency? No. > What do? 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲: AAAAH go DO them of course they’re URGENT. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲: Relax and lie down till they feel urgent and I begin doing them spontaneously.
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals I wasn’t GOING to go and lie down for 10 minutes, but @nickcammarata said he did and somehow it made me want to do it, and I did. https://t.co/8GzX66Fdno
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals It takes a certain kind of discipline to only act when I'm feeling it. To stop if the feelings stop. Bit like hodling a stock through the dip. Scary. What if I don’t complete tasks!! https://t.co/NGaZHY01lP
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals Not the discipline to force myself. But the habituation of tuning into how a life of striving just isn’t worth it anymore. I got to live it for some X years, and that was beautiful, and it was enough. I literally need not one year more of that. I get to do something else.
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals I find myself asking, scared or panicked or just feeling smol: Is this life still worth it to you? Do you care to live the rest of it? The answer is no. I’d rather opt out. It feels like it's for somebody else. I buy out of the entire tedious thing. https://t.co/p2H0ugEbmN
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals Just like that, the question arises, “Now what?” I have a second life of being ~alive~>. What now? And I get a second life. https://t.co/jADZDMVsFE
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft https://t.co/qiDYX2Nyvv