Define Good Enough (Or, Escaping the Infinite Loop of Workaholism)

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Sometimes I wake up, turn on my laptop ready to conquer the world. Then hours go by and I feel like I haven’t done enough.

Let’s be honest. When you are starting a business there is always something you could be doing. We have standards and expectations for ourselves and ‘good enough’ isn’t one of them.

But ‘good enough’ doesn’t mean you don’t care. When you are starting a business it means creating expectations for the day and stopping there.

The sole goal is to not keep working out of guilt and risking burnout over excitement.

For most of my school career, I was an A student and it made me a shit person to start a business. Let me explain.

When you’re a teachers pet or overachiever, you are basically trained to work harder than everyone else. You keep working because it shows ‘dedication’.

For me that came with panic attacks on topics I couldn’t grasp if others could and so many nurse visits she knew me by name and exactly what period to expect me. Even followed me into adulthood. Except now my nurse is WebMD and we both know that just leads to paranoia.

Now You could enjoy working all day and I commend you, but I don’t want to spend all day behind a screen. And that type of hustle culture doesn’t exist here.

The endgame? Define what "good enough" looks like for you everyday.

So I’ve been practicing Stephen Timoneys task method (tweaked with my own spin): 4 tasks a day.

• Two money generating tasks

• One relationship building task

• One long-term beneficial task

Bonus: Productive breaks that don’t make me feel like shit.

You want to go to bed feeling accomplished, not work until you pass out on your keyboard and drool into the crevices of your keyboard. Agreed? Cool.

Remember, the whispers of “I’m doomed to fail” loves a tired brain. Don’t give them the satisfaction.

P.S. I need another week to comment on the strategies I’m testing. I overcomplicated it because my head said ‘easy’. More on that next week!