To know how to make the most of the next 30 Days, check out this post: Again, if you missed yesterdays post, my intention? For as many of us as possible to create a powerful habit - aligned with a more Plant Positive lifestyle - that we will continue beyond this 30 Days, and build other impactful habits around. Today's theme #WednesdayWeighIn and.... Overwhelm is lazy thinking! For those of us that set pretty big intentions for the next 30 days maybe overwhelm has reared it's ugly head already? I used to believe, if I could only manage my time better, then I could “get it all done.” I also did overwhelm well. It is really quite easy to excel at overwhelm. You simply think of everything you need to get done with a special focus on what you can not control. Add in a dash of starting this task, then switching to that, and now dwelling on ALL those you are yet to start, and it is amazing how busy you can feel. How overwhelmed – without actually achieving anything! Stated this way, it is easy to see that overwhelm is really just lazy thinking and frenzied yet indiscriminate action taking. The alternative is to: ✅ First - Admit you will never get it all done. ✅ Second - Have the focus and clarity of thought to choose what is most important – to Prioritise – and the discipline to act according to those priorities. Now, here's the third part which I am focusing on right now... ✅ To be really ON / focused / productive / disciplined, you also must schedule really OFF time. Schedule "unscheduled / free time"! ✅ - That might look like one afternoon (or a couple of hours) a week with NO commitments. - It might be a precious evening routine of only stuff you love (reading, journalling, even - I'll admit it, watching "Those who kill" on sbsondemand!) and NO cheeky little email or social media checking in bed. - It might be an afternoon walk in nature, even 10 minutes counts.