Cue overwhelm! Comparisonitis. Fear of failure. Fear of success … ALL the ‘gremlins’ Audrey and I speak about in our 2017 book, I Don’t Have Time.

We’re so lucky to have each other, because Audrey was able to coach me through breaking this task into small pieces. Sometimes that means one chapter at a time. Other times that’s too overwhelming, and it’s about working on one scene. Last weekend, I spent 2 hours on one paragraph. It’s due to the publisher in just over three weeks, and if I keep my head, I’ll meet that deadline, one focused day at at time.

Audrey, meanwhile, along with her family, fell like dominoes to Covid and was quite under the weather with it. Not keen to let anyone down, her natural inclination was to push forward and continue online coaching and meeting other work deadlines.

She needed a little prod to officially cancel work appointments for a week so she could truly rest.

We’ve always worked from the perspective that we’re two people who struggle just like everyone does with the productivity challenges we write about. We’re lucky we rarely fall too far into those traps these days before one of us hauls the other out, or we remember what we’re doing and scramble out ourselves.

It’s never about the perfect application of good habits. We don’t know anyone who will never procrastinate. Or never getting stuck in perfectionism. Or never fearing failure. It’s about sharpening self-awareness to catch these habits at the start. To pause and think. And get on with what we’re doing, more mindfully.

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