Angel Shannon uses two sticky-note exercises to break the "do-oriented" mindset she calls enoughism. "Today I will not" asks you to skip one task deliberately. The other: write "enough" on a note and post it where you'll see it, to remind yourself you're already doing enough.
bigger question about, you know, what to do, because that's what people want. Give me, give me, tell me what to do, right? We're very do-oriented. And I have this little, this little sticky notepad thing that I came up with. Today I will not, right? And then literally it just has lines. I give that out to clients. Just pick one thing you will not do today. It's really reversing. It's reversing that propensity to always have something to do. There's another thing I, um, I think a lot about, you know, my own path in overcoming what I call enoughism, right? There was a time where I just always felt like I needed to do more, give more, and I'd be working harder than my patients. I'd be in the middle of the night coming up with resources and tools, and they'd come to their appointments and like, did you do any of the things that we talked about? No, but I'm working harder, right? So I had to overcome overcome that enoughism. So I also have another little sticky thing that I give to folks. Just, I just give them a little marker, give sticky pad, just write enough, right? Just take that word enough, write it on your sticky pad, post it in a couple of places as a reminder that you are always enough and you are always doing enough. And I think just rewiring that mindset of doing, doing, doing is, again, just another first step.
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