Living on “Planet Enough”
I had an interesting coaching session with a client last week. Her business is growing and needed some significant changes to achieve the goals she had set. In the last 5 weeks she has:
- Hired new sales staff
- Put together a new sales training program
- Created new job descriptions and accountability for existing staff
- Installed a new CRM program
- Hired a company to revamp your e-commerce website
- Set very clear goals on what she wants to accomplish with this company.
All of this on top of the day-to-day running of the company! I am impressed - aren’t you?
Yet during our session, she did not even recognize the enormity of what she had accomplished in a short period of time. She was only focused on all the stuff she did not get done.
Why do we as women, spend most of our time living on PLANET NOT ENOUGH? We multi-task, we juggle multiple priorities, we look after everyone else, we accomplish a huge amount during our days, yet for many of us, the primary focus is always on all the stuff that we didn’t get done! The truth is that generally it would take 3 days to get done everything we cram onto one day’s to-do list.
PLANET NOT ENOUGH is not a nice place to inhabit. It never gives you a chance to breathe, to relax, to slow down or to appreciate everything you have accomplished. So stop. Look at everything you did get done at the end of the day and give yourself a pat on the back. Acknowledge your success. Make a conscious decision to start living on “Planet Enough” instead. Life is short and trying to just cram in more stuff to do is not a healthy way to live.
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Fiona,
Great post! Part of what’s going on is related to our ego - the part of our personality that wants to keep us in a constant state of dissatisfaction - hence the ease we have a noticing all the things that make our life anything less than satisfactory, let alone perfect. Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” gives some great insight into the ego, how to recognize and notice it and furthermore, how to silence it.
Secondly, as science is now supporting what we’ve always instinctively know, what we focus our energy on - expands. So if we chose to concentrate on what isn’t enough - we get more ‘not enough’ - this makes our ego very happy.
One great way I’ve found to counteract this bad habit of ‘planet not enough’ is through mastermind groups. The purpose of masterminds, whether personal or professional is to focus on all the things that are going well, all the successes and all the wins. I can’t tell you how amazing the results can be when you spend as little as one hour per week bringing your conscious attention to the ‘everything that is great’ planet.
Thanks for the great post!
Heather