Wealth Checklist - Day 1 - Eat The Frog
Each evening this week will be a little task for you to complete to refresh your finances and feel a bit more put together.
That’s got to be worth a try!
Day One - Eat The Frog
This means get the scary/boring/annoying thing that you’ve been putting off done!
When I find myself faffing around, not getting started, washing up when I should be working, scrolling through my social medias for no good reason - I try and think to myself, what is it that I’m avoiding?
And it’s always something.
Sometimes it’s not easily sorted. Sometimes it’s not anything to do with me (see the waiting around on paperwork…) but there’s always something I’m avoiding, it weighs heavy on me whether I’m thinking about it or not and - most importantly - there’s always something I can do about it.
And once I’ve done the one thing, or the many things, big or small, without fail, it shifts something so that I can get going.
What’s Blocking You Right Now?
A pile of unread letters?
Get them opened.
You don’t have to deal with everything but chuck out the crap, file away what you don’t have to do anything with but do need to keep, and either sort the other stuff or get it on your to do list. That’s all. This eating the frog isn’t sort everything that those letters represent, it’s simply, open them.
Avoiding checking your bank account?
Find the password and log in.
You don’t have to go ahead and work out a budget, you don’t have to transfer money anywhere, you don’t have to answer for your accidental fall and swipe your credit card at the yarn shop last month. Just get in there, and have a rootle through. Do the stuff that feels right and leave the rest for another day.
Feeling all caught up with shame about something?
Share it. If you can do so safely.
You could tell the person that you don’t want or need anything from them, no advice, no sympathy even. But I find that problems gnawing at you in the dark have a habit of twisting themselves out of all proportion - don’t you?
What Could You Do Right Now To Lighten the Load?
Love Eleanor. xxx
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