1420: Let's just do the thing! (Reprise!)

We can give ourselves such a hard time NOT doing the thing, that we forget that DOING the thing is actually easier! So today we're doing the thing and giving ourselves some much-needed brain space!

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Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So to kick off this week's daily pep, I thought I'd start with a reminder that I'm pretty sure we all need to hear makes us often roll our eyes, but it's true nonetheless. And it's that thinking about doing the thing is often harder than actually doing the thing itself. I'm sure, like me, you've had many times where you've put things off for so long, absolutely dreading them. And then when you do it, you realize it wasn't actually as hard as you thought. It didn't take quite as long. And then you start beating yourself up about why it took you so damn long in the first place. So we're gonna escape the self berating and beating ourselves with a stick, and we're gonna try not to judge ourselves, and we're gonna try and just do the thing.

So much of the time when we're resisting doing the thing or not doing the thing, what we fail to think about is the freedom that we get back and the time that we get back once we've done it, and it is no longer living rent free in our minds. We've all been there where we're watching TV or doing something nice, actually enjoying ourselves, and then we have this nagging feeling the back of our head. We remember the thing that we're supposed to be doing, and it completely takes ourselves out of it. And then it becomes such a bigger thing than it actually is in the first place, and that just snowballs and snowballs. And if you're anything like me, you then try to desperately avoid doing the thing which in the moment you think is gonna make it better, but actually makes it so much worse. So if you've got something small that you've been putting off, today, let's just fucking do it. Our brains are busy enough. Our to do lists are busy enough without beating ourselves up over doing something that might not actually take that long.

Give yourself a juicy reward if you can for doing it. Try not to go down the rabbit hole of beating yourself up about why you haven't done it before, and let's just get it off your plate. Send the email, cancel the thing, open the post, whatever it is you've been resisting. And like John Acuff likes to say, give yourself the gift of done. So here's to just doing the thing. Here's to saying fuck it. And here's to giving yourself back some time, some space, and some freedom. We can do it.

I'll see you tomorrow.