167. What to work on next?

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Hello darling heart, and welcome to this episode of the Drink less, live better podcast.

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I hope you enjoy the episode today. Let's get straight to it. What to work on next?

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I've got some tricky things that require my time, attention, and energy at the moment.

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I'm quite good at compartmentalizing areas of my life and shutting off inconvenient truths temporarily.

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Shall we say, I put them in boxes in my brain, kind of on a bookshelf system.

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I rather like the idea that the boxes are perhaps transparent and I can kind of see what's in each box, they are most probably

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colour coded and stacked in alphabetical order and earmarked for processing in order of priority, but, you know, life is lifey

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and often what looks like a priority on paper turns out not to be. Situations change. So what to work on next?

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Sometimes it gets decided for you and sometimes you get to decide.

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Sometimes it's choosing something from the personal list.

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Sometimes it's choosing something from the professional list.

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I live a life where I work across both personal and professional interchangeably apart from weekends.

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Weekends are not for professional things unless I'm speaking at an event or delivering a workshop.

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What are the things that you work on to avoid the real thing, the true thing, the important thing that you don't want to work

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on because it's hard but you know that that thing would really help you.

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How can you get on with that sticky task?

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How do you know what to work on next when you really don't want to work on that particular thing next?

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Is it a job that takes too much physical time to complete?

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You can't just do it and then take it off your list quickly.

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It's going to take you a lot of effort.

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Or is it a task requiring a lot of emotional energy?

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I've had something very sticky on my to do list for a while, and today is the day I ping that task across into someone else's inbox. I've done my part on it. Now it's time for theirs. That's exciting. What a relief. Tell me, what's next for you?

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What do you need to work on next that's going to move the dial for you either personally or professionally.

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Thank you so much for listening in today. Come back again next week.

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Find out about the ways we could work together, and let's get you some forward focus on that next fabulous bit of your life. And, PS, I believe in you.