The Sunday Shift
Here’s a 3 minute tool to propel you through the week… especially another week of sheltering-in-place. Take a moment to make this week one you'll be epically proud of.
While Sundays can be restorative, productive, fun... These days they might be filled with a mix of dread, overwhelm, and lots of Sunday Scaries (aka anxiety about the upcoming work week).
I've had my share of Sunday Scaries after 15 years of entrepreneurship. I get it.
Here's a tool to take yourself from overwhelm to productivity as you start the week.
Write out your to-do list. The whole thing.
Every last item that needs to get done.
Identify two key items:
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The most urgent deliverable
The most impactful deliverable
Here's the distinction:
The urgent deliverable has to happen. It might take an hour or two days. It doesn't matter which. It might feel like there are a lot of urgent items. Pick one and keep going.
The most IMPACTFUL deliverable might be a full-blown project, task you've been putting off for weeks because it's outside of your wheelhouse, or something that requires to have you "put yourself out there (hello, Facebook Live)."
The IMPACTFUL one probably stings a little bit. Your highest self wants to get it done, but the rest of you is just 'putting out fires' and delaying it.
So, now that you've identified both - schedule them in your calendar. Exactly when will each task happen.
If it takes time over the course of a few days, so be it. You now have an appointment with yourself at those times.
Don't no-show on yourself. Put it into google calendar and make it happen.
By this Friday at 5 p.m., you will have honored those appointments to yourself AND even better, you will have those two critical to-dos finally completed. So good.