Hello
Hope you've had a great day, and are looking forward to the weekend, I sure am 😬
Today I want to check in and talk about how this exercise has been going for me and the challenges I've faced to date.
This exercise is stretching me, especially in the area of my commitment to myself and to my word and I'm not even at the halfway mark. When my coach suggested I do this, I thought oh sure piece of cake, how wrong I've been. It takes a lot more to commit to an exercise like this, more so when you've made yourself accountable to others.
To date I've learned the following:
You can't rely on goodwill alone to get things done, life will always happen even to the best of us and then what?
In life, there are always competing interests and you have to learn to factor these into whatever you're setting out to do to get a realistic picture.
Your schedule, planner, a digital reminder is your best friend.
I listened to a podcast on productivity by a mentor and she made me realise that the brain is not meant to be a store of all sorts of information, it works better at processing information and coming up with creative and innovative ideas. If you're relying on your memory alone, you may not be as successful as you wish to be or can be, instead, practise the art of brain dump and let your brain do what it was fashioned to do best.
Attaching an incentive or a consequence will help push you farther than your good thoughts ever will.
For me this mean if I forget to post a blog during this 90 day period, I start Day 1 again. The
Accountability is key
Having an accountability partner, or a group that you report into really make the exercise come alive within. and it creates a drive to keep pushing knowing I've made a commitment not just to myself but to my accountability partner.
Count the cost before you make any commitment, especially a 90-day commitment.
I have to say I didn't fully appreciate how tasking this would be, building mental muscle is not for the fainthearted. I've had to change tactics just so I'd keep going but once this is done I have to revisit my attitude and approach to mid to long term task/exercises/commitments.
Anyway those are some of the things I've challenges I've faced and the lessons I've picked up.
I'd love to hear you thoughts on any of the points above or perhaps you've experienced something similar and have a nugget of wisdom to share.
Have a lovely weekend.
Love
BelovedEsther
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