Announcing the 2020 Task/Obligation Jubilee! 🎆 A jubilee is when debts are forgiven, so people have a chance to start over. You can do this for yourself, in relation to the backlog of years of tasks & obligations that you've built up. How? Here's a thread of different ways 🧵
The Task/Obligation Jubilee: forgiving your backlog
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Task Jubilee: Logistical 1 Archive/delete your email inbox or your overdue tasks. Maybe tag them all so you can find 'em later, & maybe even intend to look at it… sometime 😉 Maybe give yourself a timer of like 10 minutes to go through and save a couple key ones 🔑
Task Jubilee: Logistical 2 Projects that have been on hold for months… declare them closed. There might still be something to be gained by resurrecting them, but start by freeing yourself from any *should*. You don’t have to do those projects before you can start new ones!
Task Jubilee: Relational To anyone you have an outstanding (esp overdue) deliverable for, send them 1 of 2 messages: "I'm letting go of past obligations… 1 …so let me know if this is still important to you" 🙏 2 …but this is something I'm still hell-yeah about" 🚀
Task Jubilee: Emotional 1 It’s possible to delete all these things 👆 & still feel a sense of burden, like there are things you *should be doing.* As valuable as it might be to do that task, is it worth the burden you've been carrying for so long? Close your eyes & feel into it
Task Jubilee: Emotional 2 Are there things you're feeling excited to do, yet also you feel like you're somehow BEHIND on them? The idea of "behind" is a mental debt, and it doesn't help anything for you to pay its interest (by feeling guilty/frustrated) malcolmocean.com/2019/01/nothin…
Task Jubilee: Philosophical/Spiritual 1 You may have a belief that without the guilt or the obligation or the judgment, you wouldn't do anything. This may be true on one level if you're living in constant rebellion against your shoulds…
Task Jubilee: Philosophical/Spiritual 2 …but ultimately anything you want—anything worth doing—is still worth doing even with the guilt out of the way. The idea that it wouldn't be is just propaganda from the Ministry of Guilt-Based Motivation!
Task Jubilee: do it 🔥 Take a moment right now (before scrolling on) and ask yourself: "do I want to be free of these old debts?" Then do what you need to do, whether archiving tasks, emailing people, etc. Don't you dare put "do task jubilee" into the backlog!😜
If this idea intrigues you but you're nervous & you'd like me to walk you through actually setting yourself free (including looking at what fears come up) …then register for the workshop I'm hosting this weekend & we'll make it happen!
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