Scheduling Time to Think is Vital to Making Progress

I decided I was going to kick off 2019 by using a 90 Day progress journal. In fact, I did a little unboxing video on it which you can see here.

After the first 7 days, the journal offers space for reflection. And holy heck did I do some thinking.

I started 2019 with all these grand plans and ambitions to achieve so much more this year than the previous two years that I have been unwell. The progress journal was a way to track how amazing I am going to be this year.

It taught me the opposite.

And that was super helpful.

In my first seven days, I didn’t accomplish even half of what I wanted to achieve, and it asked me some interesting questions as to why.

Recently, I have been spending a bit of time as a consumer of stimuli. Watching TV, listening to music, listening to podcasts, scrolling through social media. Some of it has to do with work — some of it pleasure.

I’ve been doing activities such as these to restore balance in my life. I worked too much for too long and became unwell. Now, I am striving to achieve work-life balance.

I am attempting to work between 8 and 10 hours per day each day. Of that time, I am having meetings, writing and sending emails, posting on social…