1431: Permission to quarter-arse the annoying things!
When you're values driven it can often feel that giving your 100% is a natural extension of you are, so for today's episode we're taking some of the pressure off.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Around here we tend to be very values based and we're all about living a life with intention. And it's fair to say that we can beat ourselves up a lot when we don't feel like we're giving something our 100%, which as we know around here, our 100% is at the very least other people's 400%. And when it comes to being motivated, we try to be pure in our motivations as well. But the truth is that life involves doing a shit ton of things that we might not really give a shit about. I'm thinking of all of the infinite household tasks, the bullshit pieces of work that other people might be giving us, and the seemingly endless life admin. So today I want us to think about motivation a bit differently and really give you full permission into leaning into doing things for the very reason that you just want to get the fuck out of your life. I don't know about you, but oftentimes I'll put off doing something and I will spend at least five times longer than the time it would have taken to do the thing trying to work out why I'm not motivated and probably beating myself up about that.
But as we all know, not everything is that exciting. It is okay to dread things on your to do list, even if you don't think you should be. And resistance is part of being human. So if there is something that you've got to do and the resistance is real and you've been really procrastinating on it, and you've been giving yourself a really hard time about it, so it's become so much bigger than the original task. Take this episode as permission to rage. Do it to really question whether it needs to be there in the first place, and also to remove that second layer of beating yourself up about the thing. There are many things in life that we could do with quarter arsing, let alone half arcing, and that doesn't make you a bad human. We cannot be excellent at everything.
And I know, for example, I have absolutely no desire to be excellent at vacuuming or ironing, even though my inner perfectionist could easily convince me otherwise. So here's to getting the fuckers done just because it is a relief and it'll be less annoying and exhausting to carry them around. And here's to embracing not being brilliant at everything. I'll see you tomorrow.
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