This is optimal, living daily episode, seven hundred and twenty three I'm officially in holiday mode by Christian long of the wild, long dot com, and I'm just a molecule, very personal, narrator, happy Sunday Hope area. It starts to your new, weak and welcomed. Living daily, where I married the best blogs IKEA permission from to help you out Is your life and this episode brought here? the linked in learning the online learning platform with thousands of expert led video tutorials to help you build your business tack in creative skills link. Dinnery now features content from Linda. A calm, the leader online learning for the past twenty years for free thirty day, trial, visit linked in dot com, slash, optimal and start achieving more. Today, I another posed for you from Christian Long, which has a quick reference Favorite holiday movie of mine, which, coincidentally, I gotta see very recently I'll, tell you more about at the end. So for now was John bright in as we are my eyes, your life

I'm. Officially, in holiday mode by Christine, of the wild wound our come. So I just don't feel like working, and this time is not because I'm stuck in a rut or because under pressed or anything, that I'm in full blown holiday mode completely caught up in that the year via that makes me want to do nothing but wine down with some hot cocoa by the fireplace while ruminate on what remains of twenty seventeen and mentally prepare for doing big things in twenty eighteen for lack of better phrase is like my brain, is hibernating from productivity I do not have the luxury of not doing until I met so we wealthier at least financially independent must still be done. Editors, one articles Comcast, wants me to pay my bill. The world her.

So I must continue to turn out the work which is hard to do when you want to hibernate. If you're on the same page, you know it's a challenge to force yourself to work when you just don't want to here are three things that are working for me, work and increments. Easier to write a sentenced, and it is an entire article. So I focus on finishing a sentence at a time which is very easy to do. Similarly, you can focus working for merely an hour at a time lighter yourself tell yourself. That's all the work You have to worry about getting done today. Just one measly our We can do that right. Mind yourselves seems ridiculous. I know, but to finish that little, our the momentum makes it easier to finish the next one. Then the next and so on, and so on. Until that tv S report is done, this is why, despite how frequently have already recommended it, I'm going to once again suggest upon the door. Oh technique is a magic bullet for procrastinate

Work in twenty five minute increments, take a five minute break repeat three times then treat yourself to a longer thirty minute: break watch a scene from home alone, drink some hot cocoa, make a gingerbread house that time is yours, emotionally tat from work if work a hall ism is a thing. Make no mistake about it. I am a word all it, but this kind of rut is less about Burma. Bout and more about a lack of motivation and willpower? My usually work Andrew mine is elsewhere when, as someone who is very emotionally attached to work, this shift can be jarring. In I don't really know how to work with our motivation, because I almost always have it. However, in a Harvard Business Review go. Author, Heidi Grant makes an interesting case. You don't need willpower to get stuff done, quote in his excellent book. The antidote happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking over Bergmann points out that much of it

I'm when we say things like I just can't get out of bed early in the morning or I just can't get myself to exercise what we really mean is that we can get ourselves to feel like doing these things. After all, no one is tying you to your bed. Every morning, intimating bouncers aren't blocking the entrance to your Jim physically. Nothing is stopping you, you just don't feel like it, but as Bergman asked who says you need to wait until you feel like doing something in order start doing it think about that for a minute, because I really am weren't somewhere along the way we ve all got into the idea without consciously realizing it that to be motivated and effective. We need to feel like we want to take action. We need to be eager to do so. I really don't know why we believe this, because it is one hundred percent nonsense. Yes, some level you need to be committed to what you are doing. You need to want to see the project finished or get her fear organ earlier start your day on quote

when you're emotionally attached to work. However, it can be hard to latch onto this thought, your hooked capturing invigorating drive and if you don't have it that becomes the task at hand. Instead of the actual task at hand is help to take a step back from my work, and you see it for what it is That needs to be written. Whether I feel like it or not. As grant says, you need to be committed to getting the thing done, but you don't need feel like doing it in order to check it off. Your list enjoy micro moments of positivity. On the other hand, detaching from work easy this time of year, because there are so many other things I wanna do besides work like Christmas shopping or writing cards or wrapping presence. I'm a cheesy, already spirit kind of person. I love this time of year want to soak it in because these few weeks just go by so fast. January and we're right back to the grind. One simple tricks help me live in the moment and still get done, treat myself too small

holiday, related indulgences for me is usually a cup of hot chocolate after lunch, even if it is eighty five degrees and allay this way, I don't feel like a missing out on the moment. Here's another way of thinking about it. Barbara Frederick, sent a researcher who said His happiness and relationships argues that love is not really an everlasting, always present emotion. We don't really experienced love that way she says, he says an emotion. Instead, we feel love in micro moment of positivity rest. As here's how the Atlantic explains. It quote. You can experience these my your moments with your mandate, partner, child or close friend, but you can The fall in love, however, momentarily with less likely candidates like a stranger on the street, a colleague at work or an attended at a grocery store, where we are and put it best in it's a wonderful world when he say I safe shaking hand say, and how do you do there really San, I love you unquote,

whether you agree or not. When it comes to love, I do think happiness is found. Those micro moments so if you're, not a holiday person, a focused five minute break can be pretty powerful, and now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna watch a cheesy hallmark, move he doesn't to the post. Titled, I'm officially in a holiday mode. By Christian, why of the wild, long dark com, and this episode was brought while linked in learning now featuring content from Lindo dot com. The leader, all my learning for the past twenty years later, learning as for problem solvers for creators for people who want to make things happen whether you run your own business, freelance orangist have aside hustle everything you need. She more is only DE learning, a successful entrepreneurs constantly learning and we d learning offers courses to strengthen every aspect of your business. They offer finance and accounting courses, including dozens of tutorials on quick books and excel

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