FEATURE: DEVELOPING YOUR VOLUNTEERS
Reframe Your Thinking
By Kate Crocco
Do you ever find yourself fixating on not having
enough time? Do you find that you’re sulking,
frustrated, even angry, stuck on the fact that
there aren’t enough hours in the day? You
waste minutes, hours, days lost in this frame
of thought, feeling sorry for yourself. The
hard truth is that feeling sorry for ourselves is
not going to get the job done or create more
time. We’ve got to establish firm boundaries
with ourselves, set the sulking aside, and
begin taking small, imperfect steps to begin to
address our mentality toward our time.
What would happen if we replaced worry with
another thought process? This will free up
mental energy and potentially create space
to focus on the things we want to be doing. I
challenge you to try keeping a “Worry Tracker.”
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Here is how to get started:
1. Open a note on your phone or a page in your
journal and label it “Worry Tracker.” Each time
you find yourself worrying about not having
adequate time to get something done, record
how long you spent fixating on not completing
the task before taking action.
2. Once the task is finally accomplished, record
how long it took to complete.
3. Add up how much time you spent worrying
before you accomplished the task. Compare
how much time was spent worrying with how
long the task actually took to complete.
Many of my clients who have participated in
this challenge find that the amount of time they
believe a task will take to accomplish ended up
being close to the amount of time they spent