Getting home from some shows on the road.
Taking four or five days to chill after working so hard.
Taking another four or five days to gear up for some more work.
Taking the next two weeks setting up meetings and going out at night to let everyone know about the work you’re going to do.
Two days of recovery from the meetings.
Three more days of getting your ducks in a row so life is optimum up once you begin the work.
Two days of actual self-stated procrastination.
One day of listening to some motivating podcasts.
It’s time for a couple more shows and the trailer needs to be reloaded…
I play out a version of this. You play out a version of this.
And it’s easy to experience the feeling of busy-ness throughout this entire process. Associating busy-ness with importance, importance with status, status with fulfillment.
It’s time to ditch the fake hustle, and replace it with the real thing.
p.s. I don’t know exactly what that looks like for you. Maybe this will be helpful.
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