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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #921334 added October 2, 2017 at 5:00pm Restrictions: None
Getting Things Done
Prompt: What is your secret to getting things done, no matter how large or small, such as planting a tree, finishing a novel, cleaning an entire house, learning to sing an entire opera, making a business work, etc.?
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This prompt hints at procrastination as a roadblock to getting things done. The difference between people who get things done and those who want to do those things is simple. It is called resistance. From where that resistance comes is a matter for therapists. If we think back really hard, most of us will find that as children we were forced to do things we didn’t want to do at the moment or we were scolded for not doing anything right.
Resistance is a force of nature that is sneaky, too. It shows up in different forms like the anxiety, frustration, distractions, or mind chatter because our minds are so powerful. Truth is, not all of us can face the facts about ourselves even if we were halfway successful in self-therapy.
Instead, for my own use, I came up with a notion. ‘Do it, now!’ I tell myself. If for any reason I can’t do it, I let the project go. It seems to work for me.
I also make a list of things to do and I do them one by one. When a distraction comes up, I go back to my list. Yet, I don’t force myself to do anything that can’t be done if a force outside of me prevents it. I am not going to do gardening, for example, if thunder and lightning suddenly show up.
Another thing that prevents us from doing what we need to do still is the result of our minds’ machinations. The mind makes deterrents irresistible for us as impulses, like surfing the internet or playing computer games (which I am guilty of—Mahjong, hangman…etc.) or even baking a cake.
An idea to such a deterrent is for me to tell that deterrent impulse, “Beat it!” It works, some of the time.
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