Author : Hugh Comerford
What would your day be like if your 'To Do' list only said: "Be productive and cheerful."?If you knew you were going to spend the day with your kids, how would it go if your 'To Do' list said: "Be playful and patient."If you are like many productive people, you rely on a daily To-Do list to get things done. To-Do lists are great tools to help you get many details taken care of, but as helpful as these lists can be, they can become destructive. They begin as useful guides, but over time can turn into taskmasters.Sometimes people actually can become addicted to ticking things off their to-do lists; you may have felt compelled to write things down on your nice tidy to-do list only to cross them off when you felt you didn't do enough that day...to feel that you had accomplished something ...as if the list is always looking over your shoulder criticizing you for not getting enough done.Recently I was working with a client to increase his productivity. In uncovering the issues responsible for his anxiety, I realized that his To-Do list was the culprit. The constant demands he felt from that list were brutal. It came to me that what he really needed was a To Be List.I recommended that he think about the states he needed to access during the day so he would be productive. When he knew what they were I asked him to create a daily ritual in which he would begin in the morning by thinking about the states he needed that day to accomplish all his tasks.After all if you think about it: behaviours are created by states more than the other way around. So repeat after me: DO's are created by BE's.So every morning I had him think specifically about the upcoming situations and the states he needed access to, imagining accessing each desired state in the upcoming situations he had that day. Essentially I taught him how to rehearse how he wanted things to go.The effect was immediate. Productivity skyrocketed, anxiety and guilt fell away. He was able to complete more than his old lists had held without any of the old negative emotions of resenting his list, or guilt when he didn't get everything done.So here's a much better way to get things done: Every morning make the day's "To Be" list detailing and imagining the states necessary to get whatever you need to have completed. Take a few minutes to rehearse each state in your mind - thinking through that state in the upcoming situations for that day.Expect to feel pleased and delighted with all you are now able to accomplish without any of the negative emotions of the past.
Keyword : Productivity, fulfillment,
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