{"id":137,"date":"2020-08-18T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.croft-associates.com\/original\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:52:36","slug":"to-do-or-not-to-donow-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.croft-associates.com\/original\/to-do-or-not-to-donow-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Do or not To Do\u2026\u2026Now. That is the question."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two workers on the 17th floor of a building site sitting on the scaffold having lunch. Jenny opens her  sandwich box and declares \u201cOh god not cheese again. If he makes me cheese again tomorrow I\u2019ll throw myself off this scaffold\u201d. Tim opens his box \u201cOh no Ham again. If I get ham tomorrow I\u2019ll join you\u201d he declares. The next day Jenny opens up the butty box, see\u2019s cheese and throws herself off the 17 floor drop to the ground. Tim see\u2019s ham in his and does the same. At the hospital Jenny  and Tim\u2019s partners are distraught waiting to hear if they will live. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t Jenny just tell me she\u2019s bored of cheese, I would have got something else\u201d. \u201cI don\u2019t understand Tim\u2019s decision at all\u201d his wife sobbed \u201che makes his own sandwiches\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim isn\u2019t actually as mad as that joke implies. I run my own business and there are many times when I\u2019m punishing myself for decisions and mistakes that I chose to make. I write  a \u201cto do\u201d list then hate myself for allocating many arduous and demanding tasks. Then when I don\u2019t do them I beat myself up by seriously underlining the same task on the next to do list. My appraisal, which I\u2019ll be both running and attending, is in a few weeks and will result in me issuing myself with a final written warning. AGAIN.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although heavy going at times I am loving Elkhart Tolle\u2019s \u201cThe Power of NOW\u201d. He talks about how stress free and productive we are when we just do things in the NOW rather than fret over what we have not done (the past) so what we must plan to do (the future) and then stress over both rather than just doing it and moving on in the NOW. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I\u2019m trialling a new system but am far too entrenched in my old ways to dispense entirely with my daily self-flagellating To Do list. Tuesdays and Thursdays I\u2019m simply DOing. As it occurs to me (which theoretically it has to do when I put a list together) I simply go Nike i.e. just do it. As such I end up with a Done list and no reason to beat myself up or throw myself out of a 17th floor window!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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