What keeps you going.
Oh hello, I have disappeared again for over a week due to busy work schedule. And by busy I mean I wake up, have breakfast, work,come back, fall on the bed and fall asleep as soon as I am home. Seven days a week. I know, I know this was my choice of a career and no one pushed me into having a job that involves making sure other people are happy with everything. But I keep being asked the same question - how do you do it?
Ladies and gentleman, I just do. I have no secret plan, I wake up in the morning and get my war paint aka makeup on my face, I give my partner a kiss while he is still sleeping and go put my smile on for the world. Today I had a later start and I had a chance to sleep in - I slept for 14 hours straight. Now if you tell anyone that you have slept for so many hours they will think that you are the laziest person they know, never mind the fact that this is purely a result of not having a day off and coming up to 60 hour work week, but who cares, you slept for 14 hours and that is insane!
Hang on, so coming back to this "how do you do it" thing - well, this is how I am. This is how I was raised as a child. My mum never ever let me get away with not doing something that had to be done. "It has to be done, so no excuses", and I completed all the tasks daily. So the secret is that us people, we think too much. We think more about how we don't want to do something and it affects the results of your work. You would waste hours procrastinating and complaining about how you don't want to do things that just have to happen so you end up just delaying the inevitable task making it more of a pain to complete.
So what does keep me going?
DISCIPLINE. I know what the aims/tasks for the day are and I make sure they happen or are re-schedules if appropriate. I am proud to say that discipline is very important for me. I do not set a million of alarms in the morning, my body knows that if the alarm goes off it is the only one and I must get up - there is no other option. Same with anything else - if it is scheduled for a set time/date it must happen. There is another side to this when I get very frustrated with people who don't care for set time/ days. Who say " we will be there in about 2 hours" then call saying "running a bit late" and there you are hours later still waiting on them to either call to update you or show up for crying out loud while absolutely ruining your set up for the day. Even typing this up frustrated me, ha-ha.
BEING AN ADULT. Like all adults I have chores and things that have to happen to actually have a sane life. Like I have to go to work to pay my bills. I have to do the laundry to have clean clothes to wear. I have to socialise to support work or outside work relationships. This is something that as to happen just for the sanity of me.
ATTITUDE. I just sometimes can't say "no" when I probably should have. Learning to say "No" is on my do to list for the new year. I can't say no to cover someone at work or stay longer for someone or do whatever is not included in my daily "to do list" at work, but if i don't have a big enough reason - I cannot say no. Or I feel like I can't. Either way, it is not a good thing but also it is not necessarily a bad thing. It is just a thing about me that keeps me going.
I am not saying that I am amazing like that and I just crack on with things, in no way I am as strong as some people in the world, but I do have a strong discipline in life. This is who I am, this is how I am and I can teach you the discipline, but you need to make yourself adapt to the lifestyle and be ready to be absolutely exhausted on some days because you should not allow excuses. If you feel like you need to make excuses then you are doing it wrong and go back to step one - discipline
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Ladies and gentleman, I just do. I have no secret plan, I wake up in the morning and get my war paint aka makeup on my face, I give my partner a kiss while he is still sleeping and go put my smile on for the world. Today I had a later start and I had a chance to sleep in - I slept for 14 hours straight. Now if you tell anyone that you have slept for so many hours they will think that you are the laziest person they know, never mind the fact that this is purely a result of not having a day off and coming up to 60 hour work week, but who cares, you slept for 14 hours and that is insane!Hang on, so coming back to this "how do you do it" thing - well, this is how I am. This is how I was raised as a child. My mum never ever let me get away with not doing something that had to be done. "It has to be done, so no excuses", and I completed all the tasks daily. So the secret is that us people, we think too much. We think more about how we don't want to do something and it affects the results of your work. You would waste hours procrastinating and complaining about how you don't want to do things that just have to happen so you end up just delaying the inevitable task making it more of a pain to complete.
So what does keep me going?
DISCIPLINE. I know what the aims/tasks for the day are and I make sure they happen or are re-schedules if appropriate. I am proud to say that discipline is very important for me. I do not set a million of alarms in the morning, my body knows that if the alarm goes off it is the only one and I must get up - there is no other option. Same with anything else - if it is scheduled for a set time/date it must happen. There is another side to this when I get very frustrated with people who don't care for set time/ days. Who say " we will be there in about 2 hours" then call saying "running a bit late" and there you are hours later still waiting on them to either call to update you or show up for crying out loud while absolutely ruining your set up for the day. Even typing this up frustrated me, ha-ha.
BEING AN ADULT. Like all adults I have chores and things that have to happen to actually have a sane life. Like I have to go to work to pay my bills. I have to do the laundry to have clean clothes to wear. I have to socialise to support work or outside work relationships. This is something that as to happen just for the sanity of me.
ATTITUDE. I just sometimes can't say "no" when I probably should have. Learning to say "No" is on my do to list for the new year. I can't say no to cover someone at work or stay longer for someone or do whatever is not included in my daily "to do list" at work, but if i don't have a big enough reason - I cannot say no. Or I feel like I can't. Either way, it is not a good thing but also it is not necessarily a bad thing. It is just a thing about me that keeps me going.
I am not saying that I am amazing like that and I just crack on with things, in no way I am as strong as some people in the world, but I do have a strong discipline in life. This is who I am, this is how I am and I can teach you the discipline, but you need to make yourself adapt to the lifestyle and be ready to be absolutely exhausted on some days because you should not allow excuses. If you feel like you need to make excuses then you are doing it wrong and go back to step one - discipline
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