1014: Let's honour what we have done
If you’re anything like me, you probably end the week beating yourself up with everything you haven’t got done. So today, let’s flip that on it’s head and wrap up this week toghether!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you. So I don't know about you, but often I get to a Friday, and I'm pretty bloody knackered. And I'm also looking back at my to do list And really focusing on what I didn't do. I choke my being knackered up to the fact that it's the end of the week, And rarely do I consider the fact that it might just be because I've worked quite hard. So to round off this week, I thought that we can actually honor What we have done, no matter how that compares to what we think we should have done or plan today. Because the fact is that for a lot of things, we don't know how long it's gonna take until we've done it. Around here, we also tend to be massive time optimists. We tend to underestimate the amount of time that things take.
And sometimes we just can't really foresee how 1 task is gonna easily turn into 15, Especially if we've never done it before. Monday us often doesn't know what Friday us will come to learn, Yet we give ourselves no grace around that. We take Monday's plans and make them gospel and then use them as a stick to be ourselves with. Even when we all know we are not fortune tellers, we don't know what unexpected shit's gonna happen. And by Friday, we completely disregard All the unexpected stuff that we have done and skip straight to the things that we haven't done. So if it is safe for you to do so right now, I want you to pull up your notes app on your phone or grab one of your gorgeous notebooks and just brain dump all of the things that you actually did. And I am very confident that you will be quite surprised because we are all too good at giving ourselves shitloads of things to do, But we are not so great at recognizing our wins and celebrating our achievements. And remember that it does not have to be the most productive week ever.
It is okay if you had off days. It's okay if you had slow days, and it's okay if you didn't get things done. We tend to massively catastrophize those things, but chances are if you listen to this, your world hasn't ended just because you didn't do the thing. So go make that list. Remember that Monday, you was not a fortune teller, could not predict all of the unexpected shit, And that you really did way more than you think you did this week. So go do that and have a good weekend Not because it is deserved, because we do not have to deserve a weekend, but because you are a fabulous human being. You get to have time for you, And you get to have fun. Give yourself some joy this weekend, and I'll see you on Monday.
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