Louis Massaro offers brief coaching advice about using small actions to overcome roadblocks and reduce stress. In this excerpt he recommends scheduling a block of time on your calendar to think about and solve a problem — the act of deciding and booking the time lets you let go and sleep, knowing you will handle it later.
Never discount the power of small actions, right? Don't think it's got to be something huge. Don't think it's got to be something big. You know, a lot of times when, you know there's something to figure out, right? I mean, we're. We're navigating life, and we're trying to succeed at a higher level. That requires navigation, that requires, man, I hit this roadblock. Doesn't feel good when you hit it, right? You got to figure your way around it. A lot of times to put myself at ease, to allow myself to go to sleep, I just pull open my phone, find a spot on the calendar, and put a block of time that I'm going to think about that and solve it. And then I know it's there, and I know I'm going to be able to handle it. And I could let that go, right? So a lot of times that next action is just going, I'm going to schedule that thing, right? I'm going to do that thing. I'm going to decide today when that thing is.
