Hey, it’s Anne with your Coaching on the Go. 

Oh, so much to talk about. 

What to choose? 

“Oh, geez, I’m thinking about this, I’m thinking about that.”

It’s the monkey mind, right?

It’s that part of us that is sidetracking, doing all sorts of things. 

There probably is a good list of things you can come up with that you start doing when you are not wanting to focus on what you had planned. 

Instead of talking about how you are distracted, I’m drawing you towards being in a state of responsibility and getting curious.

You do things for a reason.

Why are you doing this instead of that? 

What is it about this that part of you wants to do this instead of that?

What is it about that? 

What is it about this that is more important to you or feels better than keeping your word about what you said you where going to do? 

You are the one who needs to care about breaking your word, but it’s a big deal.

If you are constantly breaking your word, like I do with my calendar when I get this way.

I have it creep up every so often.

When I get down to the heart of it when I have something that I think is going to be difficult, and I might feel tired, I might be this, I might be that, I might be making myself tired by the way that I’m engaging with it.

So there’s so much to be discovered in here.

When you just say, “I’m side trackable”, “I have this”, “I have that”, or “I’m this”, you are canceling yourself. 

Okay?

You are canceling your greatness when you trivialize yourself by giving yourself a title (an excuse).

What can you find in this habit that’s useful and valuable?

One of the clients today, went into some digging.

She discovered that something she was doing was more fascinating than what she wanted to do in her calendar. 

And yes, she got annoyed with herself.

Disappointed. 

You’re taking away your appointment, meaning your power. 

You are un-appointed yourself. 

Okay, so disappoint = dis-appoint.

You are disconnecting from your power. 

You are choosing it. 

That is a serious thing.

If something is calling you in another direction, and you’re willing to put up with taking away your power, dis-appointing, what is it? 

So we looked!

This is just one thing you can do. 

You can look on the one side or the other. 

On the side of taking off on your commitment to do something else – she was fascinated by it.

Is it fascinating? 

What about it? 

What is tapping you on the shoulder? 

Is there something there for you to take a look at? 

It could be that you’re being distracted for a good reason.

I hope I don’t sound like I’m yelling at you. 

I’m getting really fired up. 

It’s exciting. 

Are you avoiding something to the level where you are willing to break a commitment to yourself to do something else? 

Do you do this so often that your word doesn’t mean anything to you anymore. 

When you put something in your calendar or say, “I’m not going to do this anymore. I’m going away from that, “ you do it anyway because your word means nothing to you.

Ooh, that’s a big one. 

You are the only one who can discover these things. 

We can discover them together. 

Sometimes it’s easier to do it with a coach. 

These are things that you get to start investigating.

They are questions I ask. 

In review, you’ve put something in your calendar. 

Let’s say it’s two hours of work, whatever that work is.

For me, it could be studio time. 

It could be two hours of content creation. 

Tonight I was working on the copy for the emails when people sign up for the workshop that’s coming up, all the content there. 

Oh my gosh, that can feel like, “I can’t come up with the right words.” 

It can become a lot of self-analysis. 

We talked about this in the community and I bring it up again because it’s important. 

What are you saying to yourself? 

How are you talking to yourself?

What I’m saying at that moment is, “I can’t think of the right words.” 

“What if I get it wrong?” 

“What if it doesn’t resonate?” 

“What if people don’t respond to it?”

“What if people who needed to come to this workshop or show miss it because I don’t have the right blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah?”

That can get to be a lot. 

It can get to be like a nagging somebody. 

It could be much more pleasant for me to get on my phone and play a game, listen to music, or get fascinated with some news stories. 

I get to look at what is going on. 

Am I making it difficult for myself?

I know when I come back to that activity, it’s still going to have to be completed.

The sidetrack isn’t saving me anything except some short-term discomfort. 

I’m going to spend a lot more time in that discomfort because I’m not getting done.

So sometimes I decide, I have a talk, I have a look, I have an audit, and decide no matter when I get back to it, it’s still going to take at least that much time.

I waste a bunch of energy putting it off. 

That understanding draws me back to work and focus. 

I decide that I’m going to sit and at least make some contributions.

I decide how many and execute them. 

Once I finish those contributions, two or three or 10 minutes, or whatever it is, (without sidetracking), I meditate before I go to sleep, relaxing my mind, and doing some appreciation.

Use whatever tools you need. 

In the morning, I am in a good space and can hammer out productive work.

Those are some strategies for you today. 

Tomorrow, I’m talking about what you eat, because what you eat can contribute to sidetracking in a big way. 

Have a beautiful rest of your day. 

Big love and kisses.