How A Single Step Changed My Life

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I deleted the Excel document where I tracked down my daily tasks and my anxiety decreased.

I created the document in order to lower my anxiety, and it worked well for a month and a half, but it was making me even more anxious because I was challenging myself every day, if there was a day that I didn’t do a daily task , I told myself that was fine, but deep down, it didn’t.

In the document consisted the following tasks, drinking 3 liters of water, meditating, exercising, writing, journaling, practicing gratitude, and, whenever I did a task I would make an X in the day.

But don’t get me wrong, I continue to do what I wrote above on a daily basis, but I no longer point out in the document. From one minute to the next I deleted the document, and as I like to have the computer recycling empty, I deleted it permanently.

I was becoming a robot, and a human being isn’t that, I didn’t enjoy the days, I didn’t enjoy anything. Instead of writing a quality article a day, I forced myself to write, and the result was disastrous, right now, I share when it’s really important to share.

And how do I know it’s important to share, you ask.

Simple, at the end of each meditation session I always have my notebook by my side, and I write all my thoughts that stood out, sometimes, when I have no inspiration, ten minutes of meditation is enough to gain the extra motivation, I leave my mind showing me what I should and shouldn’t write and whether or not I have to share.

Not writing daily may have lowered the number of articles I write per month (that is, it can stay the same if I write and share more than one article per day), but I feel that the quality of the articles has increased, and I prefer quality over quantity.