Reading My Mind

As I read through my journal entries, two dominant emotions stand out: joy and stress.

It's mostly joy mixed in with a lot of love, gratitude, and excitement but I often feel stressed, even if only for a moment. It's always because of work.

I've even cut down that level of stress in the past year - I used to feel it more frequently, it would impact me more significantly, and for a longer period of time. I didn't have as much awareness and control over my thoughts and emotions as I do now. I'm far better at preventing stress, detecting and reducing it, and even leveraging it for insight. And I'm getting better and better every day : )

Reducing Stress

This year I have already done so much to cut down on the things I've said yes to. I metaphorically took a machete to my business and projects. But time always finds a way to fill itself. Busy is a vibe and it's one that I hate. When I don't watch myself, I say yes to too much and I get busy. Being busy is what makes me stressed.

So it's time to cut shit again. I need to go down my to-do list and chop it in half.

We're about to make some hires at MarketingOps that will benefit our entire executive staff, enabling us to focus on more strategic ideas. It will free up and diversify our team so we can all be more focused and productive : )

I'm finding it harder to let go of things with Etherealm Studios but that's because there's not much to do this early on. I have nothing to delegate because I'm building everything from scratch. I need help to get it done faster. I realize I've been giving my VA busy work when I should have him help me build the systems my fledgling business needs to pull off this audacious goal!

I need to get better at letting go of things. I need to do less because less is more! One of those areas I need to let go of is general communications, but that's been a nut that's tough to crack. My VA helps me manage my inbox but I still respond to everyone. I guess a lot of the communications go with the tasks, so the more projects I delegate, the less I'll have to communicate about it. But I still think there's merit in letting go and having my VA start responding on my half to see how much time that saves me. And he's only monitoring my emails, what about my other inboxes?

The more I read my journal, the better I can see how my mind works. The better I can read my emotions, the easier it is to reprogram my subconscious mind and create the life I want to live for myself. I've improved so much more in the past year than I have any other year in my life because of it. It's pretty crazy what some ink and paper can do. It's like I'm re-writing my entire story...

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