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If you’ve been feeling depressed, the following is one of the biggest causes of unhappiness – plus I share a tool for how to overcome it!
Feeling sad and unfulfilled lately?
Want to know one of the biggest causes of unhappiness?
Whenever you break a self-promise, big or small, you create stress and sadness in your life.
In fact, you wind up getting a “Double Whammy of Unhappiness” whenever you’re not fully accountable to yourself.
You don’t get the “external” life perk which comes from doing that thing you know you gotta do – and thereby attaining what you wanted to attain!
You feel mad/bad/sad – because your soul (“core self”) feels ashamed, ignored, disrespected, stressed, unloved – and disappointed that you’re not being your best self.
No worries. I’m going to share a helpful Productivity Tool – to put an end to these Double Whammies of Unhappiness.
I personally use this Productivity Tool every day to make sure I do what I gotta do – even when I really don’t wanna.
Each day I “chip” away at a small chunk of a self-promise – so it doesn’t feel overwhelming and undoable.
To be specific, I make sure to find at least 15 minutes to do a task which I know will bring me closer to the life I want (aka: working out, keeping my home organized, keeping up with emails, keeping up with friends and family, keeping up with paperwork, writing a book etc).
I believe even if all you can do is a little “chip” of something – that’s still better than not doing anything.
And all those little chips add up to a big “Chip, Chip hooray!” over time.
(NOTE: Apologies if you don’t like Woody’s “character” – but he is funny.)
Woody has joked that he believes that there’s life on other planets — and they’re far ahead of us technologically. Not because they’re light-years ahead. No, no. They’re simply fifteen minutes ahead of us. Woody proposes that if we here on earth just had an extra fifteen minutes in our day, we could accomplish so much more.
You do have those extra fifteen minutes!
There’s absolutely zilcho excuses for not finding a mere 15 minutes extra in your day to do what’s gotta be done to live your happiest and healthiest life!
Working out for even 15 minutes a morning is incredibly helpful for weight, muscle tone, energy, clarity, sanity and health.
I recently began a 15-minutes-every-morning-ritual of organizing and cleaning my apartment.
Yep – EVERY SINGLE morning – 7 days a week – for 15 minutes – I “chip” away at some aspect of the apartment to clean/organize.
No questions asked!
WHY?
Whenever I tell myself to do a task a mere few days a week, I often delay that task to the next day – to the point of not doing it all.
Knowing something must be done every day, embues it with “permanent habit” energy.
As Aristotle reminds: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
It’s a preventative messiness measure.
It’s basically the cure-all for never having to deal with hurricane-like messiness.
I make sure to encourage Ari to join me for some of the clean up – as my “teammate.”
By including my son, I’m teaching him to embrace the core values of staying “organized and clean” – on a daily basis.
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