Hello, fabulous human,

This morning, I sat down to batch record some podcast episodes, and just as I finished the first episode, some lovely human in the neighborhood started his lawnmower.

Now, normally, this type of thing might dampen my whole day and stop me from moving forward. But I’m working on being more strategic with my time and always having a top three list of the next most important thing to do.

I know there is this itch to write a giant to-do list and go off of that. And while that can be useful to have a big-picture view of everything that needs doing, that master list should NOT be what you look at every day.

In the same way, I wouldn’t have you do a complete life overhaul of your nutrition, fitness, and health all in one day —- I’m not going to have you look at a master to-do list as your guide for what to do next.

Make the master list, then break it down into the most important and urgent things that must be done first. You might feel that everything is urgent - as an over-worrier myself, I get that. I promise you, there are so many things that will be left undone in life, and the biggest thing you will learn is to embrace the layer of chaos that is always there.

Narrow your list down into the highest priority and lowest priority. Also, if things are BIG tasks, break them down into smaller, actually doable tasks. If there are tasks you’ve been avoiding because they are too hard or scary, I recommend doing those first. (Eat the Frog,” as they say).

Picking three items to focus on is just enough to be doable and actually allow you to feel like today was a success when you get through them all. If you have more than that, even if you get to the first three, because there are more on your list, you are more likely to still feel behind and like you didn’t accomplish anything.

And while you shouldn't go through life believing that it needs to all be about accomplishing, we are a society that has been trained to believe that we need to be productive - so it’s hard to change that mindset, especially when you are pursuing goals.

So, since the lawnmower is still going, I'm going to move to the next item on my list of three to get done today. I'm also going to go ahead and edit the one episode I did manage to get done before the grass cutter came; make sure to subscribe to my podcast so you don't miss it when it airs!

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Until next time,

Morgan

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