Daily Mystic Messages - Time Bending, Part 2
When we are trying to be gentler with ourselves, one of the things that we do to take off the pressure is to give ourselves as much time as we need to complete a project, to get something done and turn it in, whatever that might be in your world.
I submit that this is actually really counterproductive and it creates more stress and anxiety and adds more pressure than we think. So one of the most powerful things that you can do for self-care is to set a deadline for yourself. Here's why...
If you give yourself five hours to do a 30-minute project, that 30-minute project will probably stretch to at least five hours. We have this funny way when we have time and space for filling it up. But when it comes to productivity, it's really helpful to have those deadlines set. And once it's set, you have a container for that project, and then you can get to it, stick to it and get it done. It works so much more efficiently and you get back into this idea of time bending and getting time to do what you want it to do for you. So set those deadlines.
Now one of the big things that people run into is things taking twice as long as they expected them to take so they get a little over-ambitious. I know that I definitely do this with my optimism. So you want to be thoughtful and mindful about how you set that container.
Another side to it is that you don't want to use it as another thing to beat yourself up with. You just want to give yourself that guideline and then treat it like a game and have fun with it, “let's see if I can reply to all of these emails in a quarter of the time that it would normally take me. Instead of an hour, I'm going to do this in 15 minutes and just play”.
Once you take the pressure off and have a clear container, you have a much better chance of utilizing your time fully and being way more efficient, which will give you more space. So I hope you'll experiment with that today.
Choose one thing that you want to play with using this concept and set to it, and let us know how it goes in the comments below.