Start every day with blogging or morning pages.
Seriously. The rush that you get from getting something easy done begets productivity. Every time. It’s a way of getting control of your day, finishing something that you decided to do, and actually limbering up your synapses for the job of thinking. Thinking and communication is the reason that we get paid. Period. Having something that you can say ‘I’m done,’ with gathers momentum for you, and getting something –even trivial–done….reinforces the habit of actually doing. Keeps you from procrastinating.
It puts you in control of your day. You’ve set a task and done it. You’ve carved out some time for something important, and prioritized it. This means that you’re in charge. And because you’re in charge, all the tasks that come at you are less stressful. You’ve carved out your time to connect, to think, to plan, to be. You don’t ‘need’ to catch up, feel guilt or anxiety about anything.
There is a radical difference in what I produce on the days that I do my writing than on the days that I don’t. Life happens. Sometimes you get interested in something and stay up till 1am in lieu of taking care of the productive tasks and doing the things that you’re supposed to do. And when I wake up late, and don’t carve out that time…the day takes control of you. Needless stress.
So–in order to reduce stress and get back to creating and thinking, do morning pages, do writing tasks, set some time to get stuff done in the morning.
Just sort of a ‘rah-rah’ to my damn self so I can make sure I do what I’m supposed to do on a regular basis. I think that the argument can be made for a block of 2-3 hours right after you wake up to:
- Write
- Exercise
- Pray
- Think
- Express gratitude.
That investment controls your mindset for the rest of the day. Its one of those things we ‘know; but it becomes hard to actually do.
So, I’m going to stop that and be biased towards ‘doing.’
Tomorrow, I’ll write about how the campaign is going. There are some good things and some screwy things that are happening.
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