I’m trying to learn more about the feeling that I’m not doing something right and that my priorities are wrong because I’m not considering the full picture.
It feels like I have something I need to do, but I don’t know what it is, but it’s gonna bite me in the ass when I realize it.
Do you all have any techniques or ways of thinking that help you evaluate where you actually stand in terms of doing all the things you need to do?
How do you go through your life and re-priorotize?
How do you feel confident in thinking I don’t have to do anything right now? I can just rest or do what I want?
I’ve given up on being caught up. If I am in a super clear minded state, I will do the most important thing. If I’m motivated but not clear-headed, I do anything that feels important. If I’m in a normal state of mind, I just do the core tasks for keeping the show running: I do my job, I make food, I browse Lemmy. And I pray that I haven’t procrastinated anything too important.
That gives me so much anxiety, being in that current state and feeling like I forgot something.
That’s the thing to fix. Not the lists. Not the tasks. The mindset that causes the anxiety You don’t have to be doing the right thing at the right time. It’s ok if things are missed.
You’re here now. You’re you. Are you or your house literally on fire? If not, then you’re ok.
Obviously this sounds like a horrible way to live, and it is if you do it perfectly. But anxiety is a spectrum and you’re all the way to the right. You need to force yourself to practice going left until you can be in the middle comfortably.
So try it. Stop the list. Accept where your are. And realize that the world didn’t explode because you missed something.