Seeking Coastal Utopia

We all do it. I am really good at it. I make excuses like a champ. “this is a pile of books I said I would read but didn’t” photo by Annie Spratt on  Unsplash Too many times I find myself in a situation, trying to rationalize why I did not complete a particular task. I may even spend more time trying to formulate an excuse for not completing a task than it would be for me just to go ahead and do the activity. Or I said I was “done” but, maybe 67% is not done . Does this sound familiar? I highly doubt that I am the only person that does this. So how do we break out of that self-sabotaging behavior? It is time to own it. Own that activity. You made the mistake of saying “yes” or “I will do that” or any other positive affirmation when someone asks you to do something. We just do not know how to say NO and we have a list of 214 things that need to be completed by tomorrow. When you say “yes”, you immediately realized in the back of your cluttered mind that you w...

We all struggle with prioritization. It is a challenge to figure out what we need to work on next; we are continually firefighting. How do we figure out what we need to work on next and remain focused and disciplined enough to finish those tasks? There is always a giant list of things to do. When we are using the rule of threes , it makes it easier to figure out and remember what we need to do next. Don’t lie and say — I get all my work done every day — or — I know exactly what I work on each day, I don’t need a list — um. No. “printed sticky notes glued on board” by Daria Nepriakhina on  Unsplash When you go home every day, or more specifically, when you stop working for the day, and everything on your plate is complete… wait wait. You mean everything on your workload is complete? Your desk is clean, the inbox is empty? Stop trying to kid yourself (and BS others). If that is the case, you must not be doing enough for any business, yours or the one you work for! There w...