If your progress is slower than it used to be, do this
How much are you gonna run?
From yourself. From your own words. From your commitments.
You say you’ll do one thing…
And instead of actually doing that very thing you promised to yourself…
You see a notification, an email, a message from your friend, or simply another short-form content…
And lo and behold, you’ve forgotten your commitments.
And you lose yourself.
Not only that, but you also lose the self-confidence that is needed to succeed in any task.
You then sleep with immense pain & regret. And the guilty feeling eats you up.
“I wish I hadn’t wasted time today.”
“I wish I hadn’t put off that task that I wanted to do for the longest time.”
“I wish I actually did something that made me proud instead of just doing random tasks.”
But even with all of this misery…the cycle just repeats from the next day.
As if it’s a never-ending loop.
This is the trap I was stuck in for most of my life.
I tried so many things to get out of it, but nothing seemed to work.
No amount of journaling helped. Affirmations didn’t feel true at that time.
Feeling sorry for myself didn’t help. Being angry at myself didn’t help either.
Heck, even using those terrible feelings as a fuel didn’t work for me.
Then I came up with the Ultimate Reset.
And this…worked like a charm.
And no, I’m not selling you any program called the Ultimate Reset.
It’s just a method you can use for free when you’re stuck in a rut.
In simpler words, start from zero.
Let me explain…
See, we’re fixated on completing a 15-item to-do list.
And some of us are used to tackling multiple tasks/projects in a single day.
But when you’ve spiralled into distractions and start to break one promise after the other…
Your brain loses the ability to do any task…let alone finish 15 tasks.
So what do you do instead?
You simply put your ego to the side…
And forget about all the progress you had made in the past.
Even if you had a jam-packed routine and worked like a robot just a month ago.
It doesn’t matter.
Literally, start from zero.
Start from one task that moves the needle.
One task only. Why?
See, we tend to associate starting from zero as offensive…
“But I’d made so much progress in the past, I should at least stack up more items to complete...”
This is the mistake I used to make.
And I used to stack so many items to complete, but ended up doing nothing at all.
I literally had uncompleted to-do list items for an entire month because of this mindset.
And all of this happened because I was going against science.
Think about it…
When you stop working out and get back to the gym after a few months…
You don’t go there and put on heavy weights as you used to, because then you’d risk injury.
So, you stack the weights little by little (progressive overloading)
The same applies to your productivity muscles as well (progressive cognitive overloading)
Your brain picks up the pace gradually after a break, just like your muscles.
So, the key is to forget about your past progress.
And start as if you’re starting fresh. With a clean slate. Just like you’d do with your muscles.
This has helped me a lot. Like A LOT.
And I wanted to share it with people who aren’t performing to their true potential.
This was missing from my life. And it could be the missing puzzle in your life as well.
Hope it helped.
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