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Dee Turner's avatar

I just want to say that I love your newsletters each week! I literally flag and keep them all so that I can go back to the links or re-read the newsletters for inspo. So good 😭

But I agree with you and some of the comments below. I have 47020374627 projects that always seem so overwhelming. Breaking it down into manageable pieces always work for me. I put a little reminder on my phone everyday (a mini checklist that pops up at 7pm) that asks about my 4 priorities and how I worked towards them today. By me doing this, it allows me to make baby steps to my bigger goals because at least I did SOMETHING. I’m going on week 2 and it seems to be working for me.

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Megan Adam's avatar

All of this resonates with me so much! There are a couple of activities in which I encounter a ton of resistance whether I've been away from them awhile or not:

sewing clothes - If I think about the whole process, I balk at starting at all (fiddly zippers, waistbands, finishing seams agh!), but if I break it down into the steps and put the big picture out of my mind I find it goes along quite nicely and my resistance disappears.

writing - I tell myself "just 15 minutes" or "just open up your newsletter for 10 minutes and work on it" and those minutes always become more - but if I block out an hour or two to write? the resistance is something fierce.

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