Helloooooo,
I promised to ask a new question with every edition at the start of this year and it’s becoming a task now! So, I’ll cut myself some slack and just ask how have you been??
sorryyy..
I am, or rather I was going through a brain fog for the last 10 days. I couldn’t focus, felt directionless, uninspired, and overthought why the fuck I felt so.
So I sat with my thoughts, journaled, spoke with my friends who know more about me than I do, and still couldn't find an answer.
I was getting frustrated.
So I decided not to feel it anymore!
Brain fog? What’s that? Uninspired? It’s just an excuse.
Shut up, get your ass up, and just work.
And somehow this works. It has always worked.
I don’t let myself be sad for long, but when the feeling lingers, it makes itself at home, gets comfortable, and just acts like it’s always been there. I tolerate it for days, trying to reason for it to leave, but then one day, (I ahve very low patience level) I decide,
enough is enough.
So I throw her belongings out, drag her by her hair, and push her out the door. She is just not welcome.
You might be thinking, “Nikita, that's amazing control over your emotions.”
Well, I am not sure. But I’d not allow a feeling that I don’t even know WHY it’s there, to put a shadow on what I’ve worked so hard to build over the last 2 years.
This is much more important than anything going on around, and it stays that way.
Why am I telling you this?
I threw her out yesterday and worked for 2 hours straight. Okay, 2 hours straight is an overkill, but it was much, much better than whatever the hell I was pretending to do.
Today (May 12th), as I write this at 6 pm, I did a 45 min SEO content strategy call with a client, presented a case study outline to another client, researched and shared a LinkedIn strategy for a founder and his company page.
There was another call scheduled at 8 pm, which got postponed to tomorrow (today, as you read this), and I wrote 3 LinkedIn posts.
Oh and drafted and scheduled this newsletter.
More work I got done in a single day than I did in the last 10 days combined.
and it felt sooooo good!
We can trick our mind to do things we want or don’t want to do, you know It is simple.
Give it a try!
Friday is gonna be hectic, and I am loving every bit of it!
Now that we are back back, I’ll share updates on the LinkedIn challenge and content brunch session!
See y’all soon!
PS. Reply and share any ideas you have for content brunch that you’d like me to talk about! You can find previous sessions here!
-Nikita