When you don’t feel like it.

You have to prioritize action steps over perfection and doing something is better than complete. 

You have to adapt quickly & conquer action over the mind - because when you run a business, it relies on you to show up and do that work. If you don’t, that is just on you. No one else to fall back on. 

But as we are humans first before business owners or thrivers in what we do - how do we deal with the off days that we all get? 

We all have off seasons, I don’t recall anyone being consistent throughout, there will be times of less action and seasons of transition & shifts. 

This is what we call life things. There will be impacts to mood, ability to focus & motivation to work.

For years I remember having an unhealthy habit of ignoring these needs. 

Regardless of how natural it was to have a day sometimes where you just didn’t feel like it - I remember either pushing through and doing my best to show up anyway. Doing the work but not in the right way. 

This is what I realized about the off days - If you push through like I used to, you aren’t helping anyone. Because the quality or standard of what you are doing during that time is rubbish. It’s better to take a breather, step away from it all, go for a walk & work again when you are in the right state of mind for it. 

Being Disciplined doesn’t need to take form in doing 8 hours each day, it just needs to be micro actions that compound over time to form consistency & combined meaningful work. This is what helps you reach your goals. 

Too often we let these life things mess the flow up. Giving up is too easy once we feel like we aren’t on the right track anymore. 

Try to consciously acknowledge that you are going to not feel like it sometimes. But just like creating a habit - you should allow yourself  the grace of taking the day off - consider that as required rest to improve overall quality of output & actively say to yourself that it’s natural to do so. 

But make sure you show up the 2nd day. So that you don’t fall into losing the consistency. 

It’s been almost a month of daily morning pages of stories written without ai + many typos haha. 

It has not been easy - there are some mornings, where I question it, or like I mentioned how my mind falls into performance analysis. 

But I remind myself that I’ve seen improvements in clarity, I can envision all these stories coming together to provide value in future years that I just reference to. The kind of benefits that might not be so present in the moment - but the types of rewards that come in the future.

Discipline is mastered so that you can look back and be proud of what you have accomplished during that year. It’s not an immediate satisfaction or by no means will you feel fulfilled in the short term. 

When you don’t feel like it: 

1. Don’t do it & give yourself a time constrained break - be specific about when you can take the next step. 

2. Show up and take a micro action in it’s simplest form 

3. And try to remember your bigger goal and not just how you feel right now.