Change Your Toothpaste and Change Your Life
“Ka chunk, Ka chunk,” I said, and my daughter thought that was the funniest sound ever.
Daughters are great and they help you stay connected with what is important. In this case looking at all the things I do each day.
We were talking about getting things done, no not David Allen’s book, but how we do hundreds of things each day without even noticing.
I was pointing out the micro actions that we don’t even count as actions. Waking up is actually a long series of steps, opening my eyes, sitting up, putting my feet on the ground. Standing up. Each one of those steps, you guessed it, ka chunck, ka chunck. Like robots we wobble through our day. Our programming making us unconscious. All the marvelous things that are happening in our day we motor through unaware.
You eat your lunch. Lunch on your schedule, but that one item is a cacophony of activity. Getting yourself lunch could be dozens of steps. Starting with standing up to walk to the refrigerator. Do you want lunch? Did you ask yourself? You aren’t hungry, but it is 12:00. We eat and wonder why we put on weight.
The triggers that lead you astray. That niggle of doubt that your book is horrible. That evidence-based thought that you aren’t that famous holding you back from doing the thing you want to do.
