intention
Today you put da hard thing first
@lullabyleo Narrated by Emmylou Birmingham 2:18 26 shots
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You know which task da one. You knew um even before you wen fully wake up, cuz um was already sitting dea when your eyes wen open, just like um been sitting dea for days already. Da kettle stay doing its slow build. Get one whole morning waiting for you, and you da only one who decide what goes in da front part of um. Dat decision goin make da rest of da day mo easy or mo hard, depend on you.
Get steam on top da window, one soft patch. One chair stay pulled out crooked from last night. Get dat kine quiet in one room wen nobody wen ask you for notting yet. Your bag stay right wea you wen drop um. Outside, somebody stay scraping someting, no hurry, and da sound stay kinda good company, actually.
You been pushing um down da list, and every push wen charge you someting. No stay free for postpone um. Feel free da moment you do um, cuz da bill come later, in one currency you no connect right away to da decision, but you been paying for every hour you wen put off, in dat low background dread, in da evenings dat neva fully relax, in dat small tax one open loop stay charging on top everyting else you wen try enjoy. If you add um all up honest, da avoiding already cost you mo den da task was eva goin cost.
Hea da part dat go backwards from how um feel. You been treating da dread like one warning dat da task stay huge, so you wait till you get enough energy fo face someting huge. But da dread not measuring da task. Um measuring how long da task stay open, so every day you wait, da thing feel mo big without actually getting mo big, and end up you need mo courage for less work. You do um early, you paying da real price instead da inflated one. Dat's why first stay cheaper den later, and no get notting to do wit willpower.
So da hard thing go first dis morning, before da inbox, before da feed, before anyting dat stay made for be easier den um really is. No need finish um, dat not da assignment. Open um and stay wit um twenty minutes, dat's da assignment, cuz da opening part been carrying all da weight all along.
By middle of da morning, da heaviest thing on your list already stay behind you. Everyting after dat goin feel lighter. Dat's one good way for spend one Tuesday, and um stay completely within reach from right wea you stay sitting right now.