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All my life, I thought I lacked self-discipline. It was either something you were born with, or had been taught during childhood, and I had neither.
During the past couple of weeks, with discovering GTD/ZTD and applying FlyLady’s routines, I have come to have a complete new understanding. It isn’t about discipline. It’s about motivation. And we can all find the right motivation for us. For me, right now, it is discovering that I can be different, and actually accomplish what I want.
And secondly, it’s about organisation. I never got anything done before, and constantly procrastinated. I realise now that I was simply overwhelmed. I had so much to do, and never knew where to start. I’d start getting minor panic attacks, and unconsciously switch to something harmless, to distract myself from having a full-blown panic attack over the insurmountable task that was ahead of me. It was never procrastination due to laziness and/or a lack of self-discipline. It was just a coping and survival mechanism.
Now that I have found structure, and learned how to divide my insurmountable task into tiny chewable bits, I’m all good. And I like it.
Screw self-discipline!! All it does is make the bunch of us who don’t get anything done feel like something is terribly wrong inside ourselves…
