1051: Do or ditch!
Our dreamsh*tter is a massive fan of highlighting all the little things we haven’t got done, so for today’s episode, we’re doing something radical.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. So if you are anything like me, every week when you write your to-do list, there tends to be a couple of fuckers that just keep rolling over. Every week as we write them afresh, it's almost like they're mocking us and we get so fucking annoyed at them. And our dream shitter absolutely loves them too, because no matter what we have got done and what we have got ticked off, our dream shitter can highlight them and point to them and say, yeah, but you're not doing this thing. So today we're going to get a bit radical and we are either going to say bucket to doing those things and make peace with the fact that it's not going to happen, and chances are the world is definitely not going to end, or we're going to seriously half-ass them and just get them off our plate. You do not need more reminders of things that you haven't got around to. Your dream shitter does that as its full-time job. And chances are you can use that newly freed up space in your brain for much much better things.
So as you're deciding whether you're going to ditch them or whether you're going to half-ass them, I just also want to remind you that all of us have these things. You are not alone. You are certainly not the only one with rolling to-dos and things that you haven't done and piles and mountains of things that you've yet to do. If any of us wrote down a grand list of all the things that we need to do in every category and area in life, that list probably would be pretty big and it would be pretty messy. And that's not a personal failure thing, it's that life is complicated, it is nuanced. There are so many things that we have to take care of, there are so many responsibilities we've got, there's so much bureaucracy and paperwork and things we've forgotten, and that's okay. Remember that our brain has a negativity bias, so we are always going to focus on the things that we haven't done rather than the things that we have done, and we don't tend to always acknowledge all of the many, many, many things that we have done and the many steps that go into every single task. So give yourself a bit of a damn break and decide whether you're gonna ditch them or half-ass them.
See if you can delegate them. Try not to delay them if possible. And let's reclaim some of that precious brain space. So see what feels good for you, and let's get those fuckers off our lists.
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