Making Things Better Is Too Big A Goal
Aiming to make things better can be overwhelming and frustrating. It can feel like the only options are trying to do everything or giving up and doing nothing. But there’s another option.
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- Do you lose hours — sometimes whole days — not because you’re resting or enjoying yourself, but because you simply can’t get yourself to start or transition from one thing to the next?
- Is there a version of you that can do everything, and another version that can’t seem to do anything — and you never know which one is going to show up?
- Do the small logistical demands of daily life — the calls, the errands, the forms, the follow-ups — pile up into something that feels genuinely overwhelming, not just annoying?
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