Just Get Back

So a few hours ago I sat down to draft this blog post for you.

I had it mapped out. I had my whole damn day mapped out. 

It was going to be awesome and suuuuper productive and I was going to RULE THE DAY!

Yeah, dawg.

I sat down. 

I opened my computer. 

I thought about this email and all I had planned to say.

And then promptly took a random 90 minute beginner watercolor class on Skillshare.

Wait. WHAT? WTF?

I could tell you the exact wrong steps I took to get derailed (ummmm….don’t leave your email inbox open when you have other shit to do).

I could dive into all of the deep psychological possibilities behind the decision to click on the class…was it fear or self-sabotage or some deep need driving me to procrastinate? 

I could decide that since I’d already blown my carefully crafted plan for the day out of the water, the day was a wash and I might as well embrace the loss and drive over to the art supply store and buy the watercolor supplies I’ve just learned how to use…maybe tomorrow I’ll get to what I had planned for today.

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I can cut the drama and get back to work.

We get derailed sometimes.

It’s not ideal.

It’s not something we want to make a pattern out of. 

But it’s really not that big a deal.

There is a time and place to look at our patterns and our favorite methods of self-sabotage. 

It’s definitely important to come to terms with our deep-seated fears and the coping mechanisms that aren’t serving us.

Sometimes we need to call it a day and take a much needed restorative or generative break.

But often, these can simply be used as an excuse to continue off the rails.

Have you ever made a commitment to eat better, but then ended up eating a slice of pizza or something junk-foodish, and then uttered something along the lines of “well, I blew it! I’ll start eating better tomorrow” before annihilating the rest of the pizza and continuing to make less-than-stellar decisions for the rest of the day?

We do this kind of unnecessary all-or-nothing thing all the time.

Let’s stop.

All-or-nothing is a mentality that makes no sense. It doesn’t serve us. It doesn’t allow us to move forward.

It’s added drama to get us off the hook.

Let’s cut that crap so we can live the way we intend to.

When we realize we’re not doing what we meant to be doing with our time or energy or whatever today, instead of making it a big ol’ thing, let’s simply course correct and get back to what we meant to be doing.

We’ve got this.

Stay curious out there!