Re-discover the "fun" part ...

Why is it such a great challenge sometimes to stay focused on what is really important to you in life?...may it be a project, a hobby or simply a routine you choose as life enhancing.

Despite the fierce determination that comes at the beginning and the conviction to “nail it this time”…it seems to slowly become another “task” and we forget what put us on this road in the first place…

I’ve been there so many times and I still pass through these periods, when the most important goal for me is simply put on hold without any apparent reason. There is time, there are resources…but there is no action. As crazy as it may sound the over-used term of “procrastination” does not manage to explain it.

After reflecting on this topic for a while now, I came to realize that many things start as fun and end up as “tasks”. Even a project consciously chosen as very important to us gets to be transformed into some kind of “obligation to ourselves”…and that I think is the breaking point...cause once an “obligation” (even if only to ourselves) it stops being enjoyable …we forget it was actually our chosen path and it becomes an imposed life style…a must do

What usually follows is a mixture of procrastination and terrible guilt for failing to live up to our self-imposed standards of efficiency…and that is a dead point… here is where we completely stuck.

I don’t have yet a “solution” for how to avoid reaching to this stage of “stuck” but I know that by simply noticing the smooth transition from “fun” to “obligation” we solved half of the problem.

Getting back the fun and excitement that got us started the project in the first place and completely giving up on self-imposed levels of efficiency followed by guilt for not performing , is the only way we can passionately follow our dreams while enjoying every moment of the journey…

…but that, of course, is my recipe. What’s yours? :)

Ralu H.

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