Stop giving your life over to dread.
In the month of July in the Heart Leap Universe, we are taking part in a journalling challenge.
One question every day to make incrementally shifts in your direction of travel.
“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.” Rita Emmett
It’s so basic but this has been hanging over me since last October - decluttering my wardrobe. Every.single.day I’d feel the dread as I opened it, with nothing to wear that felt right for the day / fitted my changing perimenopausal body (that increasing middle). I’d exclaim ‘I MUST clear that wardrobe!’ at least three times in a day. I’d list clothes on vinted and then have the admin and logistics of that drive me mad. So draining.
Yesterday - I did it in a morning! New storage boxes helping the process, and just one bag for the charity shop. This task that I dreaded for so long isn’t about getting clear of clothes; it’s about decluttering my mind, creating space for personal growth and a wider declutter of the things holding me back in life. I always knew that really, but made it about the wardrobe.
I really like this question, and I’ll be curious to see if anyone is similar to me. I’m currently working on a research project which is changing the direction of my life (I’m becoming a biological psychologist) I absolutely love it. But I dread getting started on it, not because I don’t enjoy it, it seems to be about my ego battling the change, as if I don’t believe in myself or it’s stopping me from growing. So today I will do at least 1 hour on my project no matter what. And let my soul show the ego who’s boss.