I recently hosted a mindset challenge in my FB Group, and I shared an old journal entry of mine to use as an example. Going through my old journal entries was a crazy process. There was a substantial period where each entry was almost identical. It's insane how much I've changed. Unrecognizable.
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Self-Discipline. You either have it, or you don't. I thought about it this way for years. It's not true. It feels like it is, especially if you seem to lack it. The actual definition: The ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses; the ability to pursue what one thinks is right despite temptations to abandon it.
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It's Friday. You're exhausted. You were super motivated early in the week but couldn't seem to get it back. You tried. Tried to remind yourself why you should do the things that you know you should. But you just don't feel like it all. You always do this, you think to yourself. Always. "I just never stick with anything."
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Distractions. They are everywhere. They will always be everywhere. But not being able to focus isn't just a thing that happens to you. It feels like it does. "Nope. I can't focus today, must be in the air." "It's out of my control." "It just is what it is." But what determines if someone can focus? Have you ever really thought about it?
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A new client came to me because she has a big project that she has been trying to complete forever. But she keeps procrastinating. She scheduled time to work on it but dreaded seeing it come up on the calendar. Hated it. "I don't feel like doing this at all." "I'm not even remotely motivated." "I don't know where to start."
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There are a few ways you can figure out what you should be doing at any given point. Schedule everything on your calendar. Or use your calendar for specific appointments and then work from some variation of a to-do list. The benefit of mapping out your week using your calendar is that you get to make all of the decisions
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