I said the stakes in my life aren't high, but that's not quite the whole story. There are high stakes: there's my life. A lot of the things that are not getting done are steps for creating the life I want. There are no immediate repercussions for not getting those things done. But if I don't get them done, I'm kind of not living a meaningful life. I'm just sucking in nutrients and pooping them out in rearranged form till my body stops functioning and they shovel me into the ground.
That sounds less than ideal.
This requires some serious thinking, planning, and implementing of efficient priority, energy, and time management strategies.
The simplest and most pressing of which is just the ability to quickly and easily identify low priority tasks and distractions and ignore them. And identify and do the tasks that are high priority.
This is a case of 'easy to say, hard to do.'
But it's also not an on/off switch. I have been working on this already, for years. But I'm getting much clearer on what, specifically I need to work on. In the past it was just, "stop being so lazy and bad." Whereas now I have specific things to change and implement. So compared to my past flailings, I'm making blazing progress.
For example, I just finished thirty days straight of waking up every morning at 5am and doing a whole bunch of practices for self-improvement, from meditation to visualizations/affirmations, to yoga, to communing with nature and the rising sun. That's unprecedented in my life and is going to continue indefinitely now that it's set as a habit. Go me.
(part 3 coming up next.)
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