Do you ever have one of those days where you have a massive pile of really important documents you need to get through, but they are all super hard and super time consuming and so you avoid doing them as long as possible\u2026until it finally gets to the point that you realize that you just can\u2019t avoid them any longer because they simply have to get done\u2026so you suck it up and get to work and start plowing through them\u2026staying hyper focused as you knock them out, one by one\u2026you are completely in the zone and you have to stay there because you know the moment you lose focus it will be dang near impossible to ever get back in the zone like this again because you now know exactly how miserable the zone is to be in, and if you leave it you know you will never want to return to it again, so there is no walking away from it now\u2026so you force yourself to stay in the zone\u2026.there is no time to eat\u2026there is no time to pee\u2026you MUST stay in the zone\u2026.so you force yourself to stay there and to get through it until that ugly pile is done. Yeah, well today was one of those days for me.<\/p>\n
It is hard to face doing things that need to be done, but you don\u2019t want to do because you know they are not going to be fun to handle. It is so much easier to procrastinate and push them off as long as humanly possible until external factors force your hand. But when you finally dig in and plow through it there is such a sense of relief at having it finished!\u00a0 It is amazing the weight that comes off your shoulders when you know you actually got it done.\u00a0 And then you recognize just how heavy the stress of it sitting out there was weighing on you this whole time you avoided it and you wish you had just dug in and got it done from the start.\u00a0 So you think we would learn from that and stop procrastinating hard things the next time\u2026<\/p>\n
I spent time researching studies that showed ways to help us get in the zone and here were some interesting things I found.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t have the magic answer to this procrastination problem but I am really trying to force myself to do better at facing the \u201clong and painful to do things\u201d that need to get done sooner rather than later.\u00a0 Life is so much happier when you aren\u2019t carrying the dread of \u201cneeding to do\u201d around with you all day.<\/p>\n
Here is to a productive day tomorrow and knocking out more of the unpleasant tasks that need to get done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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