Get to Work

We can always claim we're too busy, or don't have enough time, or that we're too tired, overwhelmed and stressed to be productive or useful. Or maybe we find seemingly better things to do - knowing they are just distractions from what's deeply important to us. So we leave many things in our lives undone, incomplete, unattended to, left to reside on our perpetual to-do-list, only occupying space within our minds and never manifesting in the world.

Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations, "Remember how long you have been putting this off, how many times you have been given a period of grace by the gods and not used it. It is high time now for you to understand the universe of which you are a part, and the governor of that universe of whom you constitute an emanation: and that there is a limit circumscribed to your time - if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return."

Know that there is such a thing as too late. Time - our time - does run out. Opportunities do pass. Doors close. Life does not wait for those who procrastinate.

Often we let things pile up in our lives out of a sense of shame, fear, or anxiety. Understand that what we may sense may feel real but they only exist within us and are not limitations to what we can accomplish. Process your emotions to feel complete with them. Decide what's deeply important to you and eliminate everything else. And get to work.

Inquiry

What's deeply important on your list?

What emotions or stories do you have around them that has you stuck in procrastination?

What is it costing you keeping these things on your list?

What's in the way of getting to work?