diff --git a/_posts/2022-01-13-weekly-review-15.md b/_posts/2022-01-13-weekly-review-15.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c88f337 --- /dev/null +++ b/_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. + +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? diff --git a/assets/images/kribbestraat-55.jpg b/assets/images/kribbestraat-55.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..868daf2 Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/images/kribbestraat-55.jpg differ