I am catching up with posting online my articles.
I have kind of started my experiment with positivity today but because I needed to do some organization and preparation for it so the official beginning will actually be tomorrow.
What I did today was that I set my goals/tasks to which I will apply my "positivity" and I made the sketch of my plan. My usual tendency is to take on myself to many responsibilities and when there comes more work or I need to take care of other things then my whole plan fails. And so this time I have selected 4 tasks and I will utterly focus on them. I know that there may be days when I will have more work on my main job but still I will continue with my exercises though I may cut down the time on them.
Then I will have to tick off on my agenda all the exercise that I do daily. I already see that the necessity to mark on my agenda what I do will be a motivating factor. In the past I have noticed that it was much easier for me to skip some tasks when I was doing it in my mind. And now I will have to do it on the paper ( computer ).
When choosing my tasks I have also allowed myself to dedicate 30 min to rest. Here I can sit down on the sofa and do nothing or read the book. Though as with other tasks I will have to tick it on my chart whether I do it or not. With the time I will see whether my plan is effective and possible to achieve within the element of highly unpredictable job and whether I will try to take time from rest towards my exercises.
Apart from having my general plan I will also make a daily plan with all the activities that I need to do. This way I will see if I have enough time to do everything and how much time I can dedicate to these additional though important responsibilities.
Another important point is reducing the time wasting activities. And here the number 1 thing is my computer. And here I will demand and expect from myself to write down all that I want to do with my computer before I start doing anything. I was trying to do it in the past but then I stopped doing it and later I forgot about it. Obviously because of letting it behind I have wasted a lot of time in the meantime.
So this is my plan. And tomorrow is the official start. If I fail on any days then I will have to start from the beginning. If I fail because the plan is still too intensive ( too many tasks and responsibilities ) then I will have to make the adjustments and start again. But I will not stop until I succeed. And the reason for this is that I want to do many things but because I do not have appropriate plan and I do not keep discipline then I am stuck and frustrated and I do not achieve my goals. So this time I will make sure that I do it !!!
To be continued