We are naturally inclined to focusing on deadline-driven tasks. However, our most meaningful goals are less likely to have deadlines like improving life skills, passion pursuits, compassionate giving or self care.
These priorities slip to the back of our mind while we work on relatively low-importance, time-specific tasks like clearing an email inbox! Real priorities have an unpredictable learning curve. Working on them feels rather clumsy than efficient. Big goals often require patient, incremental progress & constant energy. Unimportant tasks have a nasty tendency of taking up more time than they should.
In our modern life, it’s so easy to fall into the trap of more doing than just being. It’s worth evaluating low-value tasks that can be outsourced, optimised, automated or batched into smaller tasks. When we’re head-down into the grind, it’s hard to have enough mental space to see the big picture or the emotional strength to integrate our intellect & intuition. Taking short breaks to refresh our mind, body & spirit is the key. It inspires to translate our insights into specific plans & actions.
