If you’re overwhelmed with too many to-dos and too many options, follow these Rules of Letting Go:
Let go of “the to-dos” that you don't actually care about:
In the scheme of all the things you want to do, do you really care about this? It's very easy to add items to your to-do list but when you think about it,
Is there an item on your to-do list that you can do without and really don't care about? This is an item that is just taking up your energy and resource. Dump it.
Let go of feeling guilty:
STOP LYING TO YOURSELF! Do you really care about learning how to mine the latest crypto currency trend? Or is it just because that random guy you met told you how fun it was, and you said, “Yeah, I need to do that”?
Life is short. It’s OK to use this exact script: “That sounds really interesting,
but I’ve decided not to tackle that right now so I can focus on a couple other things I want to do this year.”
Nobody is making you feel guilty except YOU. We realistically have the time to learn maybe three new major things per year. Do you really want this to be one of them?
Let go of waiting for inspiration to
strike:
Inspiration is for amateurs. I wake up every morning, rain or shine, feeling great or sore, and I get to work. Not because I’m a machine, or a better person than anyone, but because I have systems that I depend
on — not willpower or inspiration.
Waiting for inspiration to strike is a quick way to randomly pursue something, then give up, only to yo-yo back a
couple weeks later, eventually leading you to hate yourself.
Instead of depending on fleeting motivation, build a SYSTEM.
This means you work through the steps of finding a new job, add it to your calendar every week, and make sure you have the time and mental energy (which are much easier once you know what to do). If you were serious, you would know
that all of this is taken care for you in this simple to follow program.
