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As an adventure and breakthrough coach, I Y is Yes to Boundaries!
show you first-hand how to live in the moment This relates to time blocking. If it is important
without regrets. Bronnie Ware, the author of to you, it gets scheduled first.Self-care is not
The Top Five Regrets of Dying, listed as #1, “I selfish. You cannot pour from an empty cup.
wish I had the courage to live a life true to When you put it in your calendar, it’s an
myself”. Everyone else becomes a priority, and appointment with you. It’s non-negotiable.
too many times we put ourselves at the end of Trust me, I speak from experience. I have often
a long list. Life is filled with “I have to” instead filled my days with things that don’t bring me
of “I get to”. joy, and I have broken down and sobbed
because I was overwhelmed and stressed. It’s a
I created an acronym to help support you in great question to ask yourself…..will this bring
making the most of your time to live the life me joy?
you create by design rather than default. Are
you ready to take inspired action?
Write this down: DO YOU! O is Overthrow the To Do
List!
D is for Digital Detox. What did that just say? In my humble opinion,
I recently read in the book, The Ruthless
the to do list is a disorganized directory.
Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer, that Everything that is a priority and a non-priority
the average person touches their phone 2,617 goes on it. Looks something like this: call back
have become dependent on important clients, return emails, pick up dry
times a day. Yes, you read that right! We, as a
society,
cleaning, feed the dog. The to do list is often
technology. We are addicted like Pavlov’s dog. never ending and carries over day after day
Our text messages go off, and we are after day. As human beings, we easily fall into
responding immediately no matter what we “stinkin thinkin”, and beat ourselves up for
are currently doing. When we take our focus what didn’t get done instead of celebrating
off the current task, it takes the brain a good 5 what did get accomplished. This chips away at
minutes or more to refocus on the task at our self-esteem and self-worth. I am all about
hand. What if you just turned all technology off increasing your confidence, self-esteem and
for an hour? I promise the world will not end. worthiness. Use a SUCCESS list instead. It’s
Take that hour to spend quality time for short, no more than 3 items, and it’s focused
yourself or with your family and friends. Pay on the top priorities around your ultimate goal.
attention to how you are feeling during that If that goal is to make more money, the items
hour. Still think technology is not addicting? on the success list are result producing to
create move revenue. Make sense?
O is for OH NO!
No is a complete sentence. Many times, we
don’t like to say no because we want to be
seen as helpful. Here is a key point. When you
say yes to a request, you are saying no to
another priority in your life. It’s so important to
consider what is being asked of you. Ask for 24
hours to consider a request or new project.
Keep what is most important to you at the top
of your priority list.
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