to accomplish all my goals and tasks for that day,then doesn't that drive me a little crazy? Well, yes. I do feel a lot of things on days where I do not get any of my tasks done, or days I get only a few done. Depending on what the completed task at hand was, I can feel either still a sense of accomplishment or I can feel a sense of failure. For example, in the image above you can see that there is a lot of rooms that I wanted to get cleaned. I got two of them almost done and did a lot of laundry. In a way, that could be an accomplishment and even though the other tasks were not done, I can still feel good about myself. However, that day I did not feel as good as I would have actually completing it. What is the root cause of not getting my tasks done? I think the issue centers around three main points: motivation (impacted by health), wanting to relax on the days I have off, and that I give myself too many tasks to complete a day. Really, read that list up there. I wanted myself to clean three rooms, pack some belongings up, as well as apply for more jobs, blog, update my portfolio, fix my mermaid scale fabrics, AND work on completing tasks from the previous days I had not yet finished. In a way, I am setting myself up for failure while trying to achieve that feeling of completion-satisfaction.
So, the steps must be taken to lower the amount of work that I do per day; at least on paper. I should not assign myself to clean three separate rooms unless I know that I will have help or that I do not have any other tasks to do that day. I also need to remember that different things will take different amounts of time. There may be days where I can write out three blog posts on supplies and how excited I am to have gotten them, but then there are posts like this that take more thought and time.
"But, Melissa. You titled this post about goals, not tasks, and all you have talked about were not completing tasks!" Yes, that is true, but I think some of the goals I have set for myself also apply here. As an example, in the front of my bullet journal, I made a page for documenting how many books I was planning on reading over the next year. I made a page that looked like a book shelf and left a lot of books on their blank. I have managed to fill in 15 books in the last six months. Guess how many books I had listed though to try and fill in? 118. Looking back on it, I can see there is no way I would have read 118 books in just six months; and when I made this bullet journal (my first one), I was not sure how much time I would get to record in the book. I believed it might have been a year, but even then a 118 books in a year would mean I'd have to read close to two and a half books a week. It's goals like that that I related to taking on too much work at a time. So, I have a new goal. Take on less to accomplish more. And, I am okay with that. :)
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