Category: Self Discipline

What do I do first?  There is a lot to do and little time to do it.  Learn what is really important to you for you, in your life and career.  Take care of what must have to be taken care of, and that only you can take care of. 

Delegate and leverage those tasks that need to be done, but not necessarily by you, to others.  Delegating and leveraging effectively will free up chunks of time for you to focus and to take care of other priorities that can only be done by you. 

Simplify your process.  Test it out to see what works.  Mark Zuckerberg wears the same shirt to work out.  He simplified his action to work out.  He doesn’t have to take time thinking what is he going to wear to work out. He is practical.  He frees up time on unimportant stuffs to utilize his time on things that matter.  So start simplifying your systems to get you to get thing s done.  I for example, make me a juice or a smoothie daily.  I wash my veggies before placing them in the fridge.  Then in the morning, I just take my veggies out and make the juice.  I have simplified the process to help me to get my juice done each day.  But when I used to put my veggies in the fridge without washing them first, I did not make my veggies daily.  It would take weeks and even longer for me to make my juice or smoothies.  Making my veggie juice and drinking it is a top priority for me.  Some tasks if not really important can be crossed out as done, by simply removing them from the to do list altogether.

God Bless you, with love,

Querin

I am working on ways to plan more often, to be more organized and to help me achieve my goals. I love the process because I am finding what works for me. I love note taking and I really like the process of planning and organizing. However, sometimes the process of planning can go on and on and on…without execution. You’ve heard the saying “Prepare to plan or plan to fail.” Well, I say prepare to execute your plan or plan to fail. A plan without execution is nothing but a wish, or a dream, or nothing at all.

So I say, yes, do plan, but don’t over plan. Rather, execute your plan and in the execution process you will find out if your plan works or if you need to tweak it or change the plan altogether. Now that I have a family of my own and I’m also a career woman, time has become even more precious to me. So I like to simplify processes that still will create great results. But I am also learning by doing. I am learning that making small steps consistently can even be more powerful than taking big leaps once in a blue moon.

I recommend the book The Self Discipline Blueprint by Patrick Edblad. I like this book because this book is about getting you to have the discipline to do what you need to do. But this book is also about self-care. It covers topics about the importance of having a good nutrition, about sleeping enough quality hours, about moving your body and staying active and it tells you why these things are important. And then you understand that if you want to accomplish certain goals in your life, you better start working on the things that will help you get there.

So plan, don’t over plan.

 

God bless you, with love,

Querin