I’m a list maker. I make a nice, fresh list at the beginning of every week and so I quickly notice when one of my to do items carries over from one week to the next.
At first, it was easy for me to feel burdened by the to do items that just weren’t getting done. Back in my corporate days there would have been someone blaming me for not getting done what I said I was going to do within the timeframe I said I was going to do it. Thus I habitually felt a sense of dread whenever I had some to do items that carried over (and over and over and over again).
Living as a free being, an entrepreneur, and the master of my own course, I can more easily move with life’s natural ebb and flow of energy and time. I am accountable to myself and my own business and creative pursuits – not to anyone else’s ideas of what I “should” be doing.
Retraining my mind to internal instead of external accountability is still a daily playground, but I’m having more and more real-life experiences that indicate I’m on the perfect path for me.
Take this to do item for example:
Move to new web host and setup new blog
That has been on my list since, oh, early October, 2007. That’s a full quarter plus of rewriting that to do item on my list every week! In October I made some progress toward that goal by calling my intended new web host and asking questions about how to make the move and what sales package would work best for me. I left the call feeling like I had more information, but I was still not 100% clear on what specific actions I needed and wanted to take. I had no excitement about the to do item.
So I waited. And I kept rewriting my to do item every week knowing that sooner or later I’d have the clarity and passion to get it done.
Last month, February, I got a notice from my old host that they are going out of business and I’d have to move my website to a new host. Perfect! That will make closing my account with them really easy.
Then, there just naturally came a day in February where I really felt energized and clear-headed to tackle the move. I called the new hosting company and the whole process was 100 times easier than it felt like it was going to be when I called them way back in October. Within 2 hours I had my website and email all set up with the new hosting company. Seamless. Easy. In Flow.
The whole process was so energizing for me that within the next day I also had my new blog software setup, the new design created and my first posting. And now you get to read and respond to all this cool stuff!
So, if you still have external sources you are accountable to, how do you manage the to do items that keep “slipping” from week to week? Simply allow yourself the time and space to get clear and energized about the goal. Schedule time for yourself to sit with it and allow the universe to give you exactly what you need.
And remember that time and schedules are just a useful construct we humans use to make our interactions easier … you can always change your mind about what to get done and by when.
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