Follow the Yellow Brick Road 2023

SandyShores

Just had to post to say I am stuck on my ToDo List.  I have one action that I should be focussing on and I'm avoiding it.  I need to eat that frog, because there is a whole A4 sheet of them!  And I don't feel I can do my craft stuff until I've eaten a few.  

South_coast

I can naively sympathise with that one!!! What I will say though, is that once I've got on and done it, it never feels that bad and I wonder why I put it off for so long 🤷‍♀️

SandyShores

South_coast said:

I can naively sympathise with that one!!! What I will say though, is that once I've got on and done it, it never feels that bad and I wonder why I put it off for so long 🤷‍♀️

Glad its not just me South_coast.  I think I'm always anticipating difficulties so I put it off.  But sometimes you just have to get over that barrier and do it, and it never turns out as bad.  It feels worse having it there to do.  Right, I'll do my best.

South_coast

And I will do my best to proof-read in future - naively sympathise, honestly....🤦‍♀️

SandyShores

South_coast said:

And I will do my best to proof-read in future - naively sympathise, honestly....🤦‍♀️

Well a quick look on the tinterweb and I found a book called Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously and Chapter 7 is titled Is Sympathy Naive.  

Haven't read it but perhaps you have and forgot

savingholmes

Well good luck with the to do list... Mine just keeps growing. I've learned not to list as many things so I don't become overwhelmed but still... 

KajiKita

Did you get it done? 

I had a task like this recently - working out our new budget after me leaving work …. Totally tapped my fight-flight response ….
I got past it by thinking about it in chunks. 

What the steps needed to be. 

I did 20 minutes on it one day and got stuck …. Left it …. 

Wandered about doing other things and realised that I needed to come at it from a different angle. 

I did that and it started to flow - I have now even been able to justify to Mr KK contributing as much as me to the joint account and I have clarity on us being able to survive on a reduced salary for me, which is probably a more realistic figure to aim for - it was that, that was ‘tapping’ my fear and being a complete block for me …

KK

SandyShores

Thanks savingholmes, my list is now on one A4 piece of paper, but the tasks are not 5 minute tasks so I'm getting stuck.  Good call about breaking it into chunks Kajikita.  I'm glad you have managed to get past your blocker.  Its such a relief when that happens.  I tend to freeze when I'm faced with a slightly difficult task, I'm not sure why as I'm a fairly practical person.  Give me someone else's problem and I'm sleeves up and tackling it step by step.  I'd love to understand the psycho analysis behind it.  No, I haven't done that task but tomorrow I have a day free and will first set out a plan and then do it step by step.  My job is a planner/doer so I just need to apply that don't I. 

KajiKita

Well I have another of ‘those jobs’ that I need to do … (updating my CV) which is weighing on my mind, so although I was going to give myself two weeks off completely I think I will start it in the coming week, especially as the forecast is naff! I will aim to get that and my statement to go with the green ring on LI done before I go on holiday, so they are both ready to use when I get home from holiday. 

We will be ‘chunking’ together 😊 (that will sound so bad to strangers coming across this thread ….! 😉😂) I hope your chunking goes well 😊

KK

SandyShores

KajiKita said:

Well I have another of ‘those jobs’ that I need to do … (updating my CV) which is weighing on my mind, so although I was going to give myself two weeks off completely I think I will start it in the coming week, especially as the forecast is naff! I will aim to get that and my statement to go with the green ring on LI done before I go on holiday, so they are both ready to use when I get home from holiday. 

We will be ‘chunking’ together 😊 (that will sound so bad to strangers coming across this thread ….! 😉😂) I hope your chunking goes well 😊

KK

Hope you managing to get chunking.  I've been a bit quiet as not much chunking was going on here.  Then I picked up a pen and paper this morning and broke it down into 'chunks'.  Returned to it this evening and tackled each chunk with the help of the tinterweb and AI.  The final chunk is to check things through with MrShores and then press the button.  Woohoo!  That's gone really well :