You Already Know What to Do

The thing that's been on my mind the most this week is how we have to do the work.

A lot of us are our own worst enemies.

We can talk about the work until we're blue in the face, but only taking it on headfirst and following it through to completion gets us a result.

I sat in a meeting this week where someone complained about the work involved with guaranteeing some sales.

I was stunned.

I was thrilled to be doing the work. Guaranteed sales? Baby, sign me up.

We were literally given the cheat sheet. Less than 30 minutes of work.

We had help.

All we had to do was take action.

How often do we shy away from the very thing we need because we don’t recognize it?

I felt a little convicted after that, because I know how much is sitting on my own to-do lists.

I run my life on lists. Seven buckets, multiple lists in some of them. It keeps me moving forward and out of my feelings.

But there were things I’d been avoiding.

Not hard things. Not time-intensive things.

Just things I didn’t feel like doing.

Unavoidable, death-and-taxes-type tasks.

The kind that sit in the background and quietly drain you.

So I sat down this week and cleared every single one of them.

All of it.

And afterward, I laughed.

Because I had spent weeks building up anxiety over tasks that were, in reality, simple and almost unimportant.

I had been lying awake, overthinking and dreading them.

In less than four hours, I cleared over a month’s worth of mental weight.

That wasn’t a time problem.

That was avoidance.

We are our own biggest obstacle.

How often do we build things up in our minds that are, in the end, just a blip on the map?

I challenge you this week to love yourself enough to clear the tasks that are causing background anxiety.

Call the IRS.
Schedule the meeting.
Purge the closet.

You’d do it for someone you love without hesitation.

Do it for yourself.

You deserve that kind of follow-through.