Resolution Support Week 4: Do Less

  Making lifestyle changes can be kinda exhausting, right? Shifting priorities and putting more focus on new goals means you will be summoning up MORE willpower, MORE time, MORE resources, MORE planning, MORE mindf--cking, MORE successes to celebrate, and MORE horses to climb back up on after you fall, even if you're really sore and depressed and pissed off and you'd much rather sulk and swear. Ouch. So where does all that "MORE" come from? Sometimes creative thinking can result in new efficiencies, or you can multitask, or drop some timesuck that you weren't that excited about anyway. When that happens easily, yippeee! But often, the MORE required of a new healthy habit change results in a LESS somewhere else. And unless you picked a stupid-ass goal on a whim that doesn't make sense for your life, you're going to have to come to terms with the costs of slacking off somewhere else. One popular method of dealing with this dilemma:  beat yourself up all that time. Assume that this extra time and energy should magically appear from nowhere, and if things start to slide elsewhere, tell yourself it's because you are an inefficient timefrittering first class f--ckup. This is a very popular approach and one you may already be employing.  Er, how's that working for you? On the Lookout for Less A sad and scary fact that many of us are in denial about: there will always be more stuff we "should" do and "want" to do than we have time or energy for. The...
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