Sometimes our brains make things seem bigger than they are

Hi Reader!

Last year, Linda decided that we needed to go through and polish all the blog posts across our three websites.

And just the thought of it made me want to hide under a blanket. 😅

There were so many articles that I convinced myself it would take MONTHS.

My brain had already decided:

Unfortunately, my brain couldn't convince Linda that we should forget the whole thing. 😄

A few days later, I had lunch with my mom.

She asked me a few simple questions.

💬 How many blog posts do you have?​
💬 How many can you realistically work on each day?

She did the math in her head (very quickly, I might add 😄) and looked at me.

"It should take you less than two weeks."

I was honestly really surprised. In a good way!

A project that had felt enormous suddenly didn't seem so scary anymore.

(And it really didn't take longer than that to finish it. 😉)

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🌿 Sometimes Our Brains Exaggerate

I think we all do this.

We think about writing a book and imagine hundreds of pages.

We think about meditating and picture ourselves sitting in absolute silence for an hour.

We think about exercising and picture exhausting workouts.

But what if we looked at things differently?

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💛 Small Things Add Up

Here's the beauty of small things:

• Five minutes of meditation every day becomes more than 30 hours in a year.
• One page of writing every day becomes a 365-page book.

And little by little, something else changes too.

You start proving to yourself that you can do hard things.

You stop being someone who wants to do these things.

You become someone who actually does them.

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💛 The Lesson I Learned

My mom didn't make the project smaller.

She simply helped me see it differently.

Instead of looking at hundreds of blog posts, she looked at what I could realistically do in one day.

And maybe that's a better way to approach a lot of things in life.

Instead of asking:

Maybe we should ask:

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💭 One Thought To Leave You With

Sometimes the biggest obstacle isn't the task itself.

It's the story our brain tells us about how impossible it will be.

And sometimes all it takes is breaking that story into smaller pieces.

That's exactly what my mom did with our blog posts.

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