It is easier to turn failure into success than an excuse into a possibility. A person can fail and turn around and understand their failure, making it a success. But a person who makes excuses for everything will never truly succeed. When you excuse what you are doing and you allow the exceptions, you fail to reach your potential. It is impossible to turn excuses into possibilities.
It’s been a super exhausting week, in all the good way you can think about it. Lots of plans execution, tones of strategies, Lord of fun, immense learnings, and tremendous unlearning patterns.
Basically, I wanted to set the last weak of the first month as a benchmark for the coming weeks of the year.
The theme for the week was “law of attraction” through processing the mind, it’s the idea that our universe operates under that law that ‘like attracts like’ which means that with every thought you put out, you are going to attract them back in your life in return.
On the surface level, you can say, if you send out good vibes, you would receive good vibes; if you’ll be compassionate to others, people would be kind to you. And, on the flip side, if you hurt others, someone would certainly hurt you some way or the other.
We can’t always control our circumstances, but we can control our responses to them. In this vein, the law of attraction can provide the optimism and proactive attitude that’s associated with resilience in difficult situations, but it must not be used as a tool of self-blame.
3 Tips to conquer a week
1. MORNING PAGES
I am a huge believer in having at least one mindful practice in hand all the time that would help you to maintain growth, focus, and productivity.
It took me a long time striding to do this after trying a lot of different things. But, what I found is that my most productive practice is to sit down daily to practice writing practice, obviously other than my blogging, podcast scripting, and jotting life strategizing stuff which is called ” morning pages”.
Morning pages are a stream-of-consciousness journaling habit done first thing every morning daily. The idea is to wake up, open your morning journal, and write three pages of longhand of any thoughts that come out of your head.
The reason why I love morning pages is that they are incredibly imperfect. It’s about writing whatever occupies most of your attention in the morning and letting it out on the paper as it is. This practice is a bit more organized than brainstorming.
I’m presently practicing “The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 days of writing and reflection on the art of living ” by Ryan Holiday. In which I have to reflect on the same thought both, morning and evening. I have come across that I most of the time mold the question in the morning and answer it as inclined towards the thought wandering in my mind then, which doesn’t happen in the evening reflection.
That’s why morning pages are important, to put down your beliefs and best ideas on paper.
Suggestions for your productive week:
– Don’t write about writing. Write about ‘what you think?’.
– Don’t believe the myth that morning pages need to be perfect as your name.
– It must be the first thing in the morning.
– It’s okay not to write 3 pages, not like the rule popular by the author of “the artist way”.
2. ACTIVE SORTING
Organize information even without thinking about it. It’s not just the act of files in different folders, writing down a to-do list, or setting up a planner.
The way you create a hierarchy of thoughts, prioritize your actions, create little rituals around your daily routine are all symptoms of an organized mind.
Active sorting is the way you separate things you need to deal with things you font, without giving it much thought. Active sorting can be translated in the system you may be familiar with” Heisenhower Matrix”.
Heisenhower Matrix is the organizing system that breaks down tasks into:
➡Urgent and important
➡Important and not urgent
➡Urgent and not important
➡Not urgent and not important
You need to do this instantly when you come across any relevant information.
I learned to do it this week very efficiently and I must say it literally works.
Suggestions for your productive week:
– Make a list of all your work in hand.
– Categorize your list as per the Heisenhower Matrix rule.
– Believe in your sorting and approach the task with the mindset, as per your category.
– Strictly follow the category until you complete the task.
3. DISPOSE OF STAGNATING PLANS
How many of you snoozed the button when the alarm rings in the morning? And, how many of you snoozed more than once? The last question; is this what you want? No!
There is a gap which we all suffer from a gap between our plans and their execution. At times we plan to do and thing and end up doing the other.
Unfortunately, the lack of execution of our plan generates immense dissatisfaction within, disappointment for oneself, and sometimes feels pitty and envy even.
The breakthrough of meeting the plans we find difficult to execute is to become aware that we can not escape from them.
The catch, our awareness comes with is the acknowledgment of what matters to us;
▶which plan meets our needs?
▶which plans deserve our attention?
▶which plan is literally to fight for?
▶which plan is worth it?
Here, you would come across that some plan doesn’t even need to be pursued. And, that plan is the one which you should dispose of from your to-do list.
Suggestions for your productive week:
– “New me” should not bring in over-the-top expectations.
– Discard the goals, irrelevant to your authentic self.
– Removing wrong would direct you to the right path.
– Search for an alternative plan, which could meet your desired needs and your purpose as well.
Ultimately, you are responsible for the changes that you make in your life. The good news is, you can make the changes you need to make in your life. So, get going in the process and turn your thoughts into change.
References:
1. What Is the Law of Attraction?
https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-and-using-the-law-of-attraction-3144808
2. Journaling Techniques: 12 Tips for Writing Morning Pages
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tips-for-writing-morning-journal-pages#4-benefits-of-writing-morning-pages
3. Changing your beliefs starts with changing your thinking
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/02/23/smallb4.html
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