a feel good / productivity tip

258. i'm sharing a tip to help you feel good and increase productivity. it's something i never thought i would do, but i've been doing it for years, and here i am years later sharing it with you. 

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Transcript

A Counterintuitive Productivity Tip

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Hey friend, I'm sharing with you a sort of a productivity feel-good tip that I never thought that I would do myself. And I've been doing it for years, and I actually really love it. So I thought maybe I would share it with you. So years ago years ago, I want to say, I don't know, six or seven years ago, I followed a woman on Instagram. Her name is Elise Blaha Kripe. She is no longer on Instagram. She's doing this amazing thing where she's not on social media, but she just um sends out newsletters. Um anyway, she is so inspiring to me because she is a goal-getter. She sets goals, she achieves goals, she's super creative, she's always trying new projects, and um I just love her work. I just think she's so cool. Um, but anyway, one time she showed her kind of planner or her to-do list, and so she had this list of to-dos, and then she would, when she completed one, she would mark it off with a gray highlighter. So first of all, I was like, what is this magic that's a gray highlighter? Because like this, I only thought there was like neon green and orange and those colors, just like I don't love them that much, so I didn't really like using them. So first of all, I was like, oh my gosh, gray highlighter, amazing. But second of all, I was like, what in the heck? She's so backwards. Like to me, I think we highlight things that are important that we want to remember. And it doesn't make sense that you would mark something off with a highlighter that you have done and now you can move on from. And I was like, this makes no sense. This is so backwards. Like, I feel like you should highlight the things that are really, really important that you must do that day. And then you mark them out with like a black line or something when you've done them. But the cool thing about her method, marking off completed items with a highlighter, is that you can still see what the items are. So when you look back at the end of the day, you're like, oh, I accomplished some things and you can still see what they are. My method of marking it out with like a black black line or black marker is you can't really see what you did. And so it's just there's something like not quite as satisfying when you look back and it's just like, you know, it kind of looks like the redacted Epstein files. I I did that, I went there. Uh, but where it's all black lines, right? Not so good feeling. So I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna try it. So of course I ordered the gray highlighter, which is amazing, by the way. And now I have lots of other, like kind of um more subtle, muted colors that much more jive with my personal aesthetic. But anyway, I tried it for a couple days where I marked off with a highlighter items that I completed, and I loved it. I loved that you still got to mark off item, which is which we all know feels good, but I could also still see them. And it looked really cool at the end of the day, like I said, or at the end of the week to look back at all the things I had accomplished. And that's one of the things that has really changed in my life is looking at what I have done instead of spending so much time focusing on what I haven't done yet. So I have all kinds of tools that I use in my coaching practice. Uh, one of them is the the did it list. I will talk about that on another episode. But it really does change how you view yourself when you spend the end of the day or one minute, 30 seconds at the end of the day, or at some point during the day, looking at what you've accomplished as opposed to, oh, I didn't do this and I didn't do that, and I still have to do that, and oh my gosh, I never do anything. It feels so much better to look at what you've done and to see that you're actually accomplishing a lot. And I don't mean that we have to be productive sending emails. I mean like, you know, having a hard conversation or moving our body, like doing things that like may feel like they come easily to other people, but not to us. It doesn't always have to be just in terms of productivity and tasks. I think it's so important to acknowledge what we're doing. So I just wanted to share that tip with you. It might be something that you want to try to mark off completed items of your to do list with a highlighter so you can still see through them and just kind of celebrate what you have done, and it feels really good. It feels really good. So if you try it, let me know how it goes. And I love you so much. Bye.