The Effortless Everyday: How to design your daily life to free up time and energy for what really matters
Katie Leeamazon.com
The Effortless Everyday: How to design your daily life to free up time and energy for what really matters
Step 1: What You Want Identify (or declare) what you want, even if what you want is a resounding “I don’t want that!”
Try this: for one day, time everything you do. You don’t literally need a stopwatch, but check the seconds hand on the clock or use your phone. Or simply count out loud.
Your everyday life makes up your whole life.
I have created a Priming For Change exercise for you that you can access for free at www.theeffortlesseveryday.com
These are the underlying meanings when someone says, “I don’t have enough time.” My environment is filled with inefficiencies, barriers and triggers that are sucking up my valuable time. I am ambitious and have high standards, but I don’t know exactly how to structure my day and week to tackle everything. My ambition has clouded my understanding of
... See moreyour wants can be nots to a negative occurrence as much as they can be yeses to positives.
Remember this and repeat it to yourself over and over until it sticks: There is no failure. You just haven’t found your answer yet.
Step 2: What You Need Figure out what you need to get what you want. Follow the chain.
“Complexity is the enemy of execution.” This is the trick. We think we can’t do something when in reality we have no idea what it takes.