post weekly review 15

_posts/2022-01-13-weekly-review-15.md

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+published: true
+title: "What's the Real Next Action?"
+image: kribbestraat-55
+permalink: /weekly-review-15
+description: "All projects can be daunting if you don't start this habit."
+image-attrib: >-
+  Ayo Ayco. Winter time in the city.
+category: personal
+---
+
+Wow, it's been a while since I posted something! December 2021 must have been the busiest, most demanding month of my entire life.<!--more-->
+
+It was a time when the items in my "Active Projects" list was the most. 
+
+Everything I want/need to accomplish, I treat as a Project. And last month indeed there were a lot of things that needed to be accomplished. 
+
+I realized there's one thing that made handling multiple projects significantly more manageable.
+
+And it's this: the habit of asking "What's the real next action?"
+
+I know it sounds obvious, but you'll be surprised at how hard this really is if you don't intentionally put your mind into it.
+
+For example, you might think the next action is something like "call the municipality office" ... but if you think more about it, the *real* next action is "find the municipality office's phone number" and even then, the real next action would be "find out the schedule when the municipality office can take calls".
+
+Determining the Real Next Action helps in breaking down projects into manageable tasks and frees the mind to focus on really doing the stuff that can actually be done.
+
+Once you get this habit started, you'll notice that you are actually getting things done instead of constantly having a feeling of being "stuck".
+
+The truth is, this feeling of being "stuck" often builds up and leads to what us wanting to procrastinate.
+
+So the next time you add a task in your TO-DO, ask yourself: What is the Real Next Action?