Skipping important steps in the name of "efficiency"

𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.

Like, to a point that I’ll sometimes (read: often) justify not doing the really meaningful, needed inner work before getting started in my work day because all I can think about is the time I’m spending doing that when I could be doing some other “money making task”.

𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩: 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙨.

In any case, I wanted to share a bit of my experience this morning in hopes it inspires someone else to 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵. 



Even if you’re like me and your entire goal in making money is to give it all away, you (read: I) have to realize that you are no good to anyone depleted. 

You have to be the best version of you to maximize what you are able to do for others. Period. 

I digress... 

I started a new journaling practice a few months ago. 

Anyone who has known me for more than five minutes knows that I try live in a constant state of gratitude, so doing a daily gratitude journal came naturally to me, but anything outside of that is usually a hard eye roll for me, but my coach said to do it, so I’m in. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The practice starts with first listing out 10 wants and desires, writing them out as full sentences and then re-writing them out in the present tense as if you have already received these blessings from the universe. 

The goal here is to go ahead and get into the mindset of what the best version of you looks like; to start acting like that person TODAY. 

So of course, me being the efficiency queen that I am, I intentionally found ways of writing my original statements so that I could just mark out a portion of the sentence and replace it with “AM” or “HAVE” and just re-read them to myself and meditate on THOSE feelings.

But what I found in this practice this morning went even deeper than I was expecting. 

As I was going back through my sentences, what I realized is that there was rarely ever even a need to add anything at all. 🤯

“I want to honor my time.” became

“I w̷a̷n̷t̷ ̷t̷o̷ ̷ honor my time.”

“𝗜 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘.” 

“I want to have meaningful boundaries.” is now 

“I w̷a̷n̷t̷ ̷t̷o̷ ̷h̷a̷v̷e̷ meaningful boundaries.”

“𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦.”

Which got me thinking...

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦; 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰? 

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 “𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴” 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵? 

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴? 🙀

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚? 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙬?