If I were a motivational speaker, or a motivation style life coach, I would probably try to turn the title up there into some sort of aphorism ‘working small, playing big‘ but that’s not how I roll.

Instead, I’m just really interested in the fact that the tasks that I decided to work on this week in very small increments are the ones that I made progress on the ones that I left big have hardly moved.

I actually made a category in my to do list for incremental tasks and put five things in there and as long as I work on three of them during the day, even just for a minute, I can cross that off my list and something about the scale of that is really useful to me.

And the other task that I took on (not a work task, a home task) was cleaning out a closet downstairs and while the closet isn’t perfect it is much much better and I’m comfortable with leaving it the way it is for a long while.

And now I’m thinking that it might be easier for me to relax overall, easier to let my brain off its leash regularly, if I put more things into these incremental task categories

Perhaps part of my challenge with letting my brain relax is my concern that I have things that I’m going to forget.

I don’t know why my brain thinks it’s better to keep them as big tasks and then just keep them on my radar, but not take any action, but I’m going to try to coax my brain to consider the value of working in small doses.

Maybe I need to take notes on how well this has worked this week so I can return to it and remind myself when I need to. ?