Do you guys remember that video? A guy saying ‘just do it!’ moving his arms in a funny way?
A few weeks ago I understood it completely. And it’s genius.
I’ve been trying something new, as always. I like to experiment with new routines and habits. To find the perfect way for me to do more things in a day, or at least to be able to condense the most amount of it, to also have free time. So basically, learning to be more efficient with my time and mental clutter.
Why do I say mental clutter? Because I’m one of those people who gets stressed just for thinking about the things that I have/want/should do. And I also want to do a lot of things, which makes it worst.
Of course it’s important to prioritise and set the important ones above the rest. So for those ones that I prioritise I’ve been trying the following method.
Planning and mindless execution.
I’ve started a new job this year, which I will write another post about it, for now, the most important detail you need to know, in my new job we plan everything in google calendar, and I end up with 4-5 meetings almost daily.
Meetings and planning are not in my ‘favourite things to do in life‘ list. But I realised that, if well done and executed ‘mindlessly’ works like a charm.
So I decided some weeks ago to do the same. Pick which were the things that I wanted to do the most for one week, set them in the calendar and follow the calendar like a mindless person. And that’s the secret, ‘mindless’.
I don’t allow my self (or I try) to let my thoughts drive me away from it. Because you probably experience it. Whenever you have to do a task, you imagine yourself doing it and you start feeling fatigued already. Just for imaging it!
And the most amazing thing is, that I found a study that shows up that imagine a treat, lights the similar regions in our brain as experiencing them does. So my theory here is that it also works with anything else. Let’s say you have a task to do, you will think about it, imagine yourself what you have to do to accomplish it, letting your thoughts fed you up with it, and bam, you are just fatiguing yourself for something that you haven’t even start doing!
So when you do the actual task, it would have cost you 2 times the effort.
That’s what I mean with ‘mindless’, you have a task, stop your thoughts there, don’t let them flow, ‘just do it!’.
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