What if you burned the pile? š„
Letās play with a thought experiment for a minute. A little dramatic⦠but stay with me... š„ What if you burned the pile? You know the one āthe mental stack of to-dos, the obligations you said yes to out of guilt, the āshoulds,ā the open tabs, the DMs you havenāt replied to, the 4,000 (do I hear 10,000? 30,000?) unread emails you swear youāll deal with āsomeday.ā What if you piled all of it upā¦struck a matchā¦and let the whole thing go up in flames? What would happen? Would there be anything in that pile youād actually miss? Anything truly urgent or essential⦠OR is most of it just noise youāve been carrying out of habit? Would anything bad happen if you didnāt respond, fix, finish, or follow up? Or ā and this is the real question ā would it feel like release? Like creating a clean slate your brain hasnāt felt in years? Sometimes the reason we feel behind isnāt because weāre failingā¦itās because weāre dragging around a pile of busywork that doesnāt even belong to us anymore. So today, just imagine: If you burned the pile, what would be lost? And what freedom might you gain? You donāt have to actually set anything on fire (tempting as it is š
)ā¦but noticing what you would burn tells you a lot about whatās still worth carrying. (Thanks to @Mike Richardson for sparking this reflection by suggesting I burn my own pile lol)