3-4 Shiny New Planner Syndrome Cont'd - Bedazzling your planner, I'll Do it Later

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1. 3-4 Shiny New Planner Syndrome...ner, I'll Do it Later [5 mins] Wed, Apr 27, 2022 9:31AM 4:39 SUMMARY KEYWORDS brain, obstacle, adjust, emergency, habit, distraction, planner, bullet journals, creative outlets, adjustment, procrastination, progress, unwieldy, talking, shuffle, phase, stick, recognize, takes, months SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hi, there, Mama. Welcome back to part four. On module three, we're talking about all of our obstacles, my head over here. Okay, so we were talking about shiny new planners syndrome. And one of the things that makes developing new habits hard for us is that, you know, you always hear this thing my like, oh, 21 days is sort of habit, it actually doesn't take that long, it actually takes much longer than that for neurotypical brains to learn habit and takes us even longer. Patricia Sung 00:26 So we really want to push ourselves to try that commitment for as least two months, if not three months, that we try it out, we adjusted, we, you know, we're we talked about putting on like our scientist hat or put our lab coat and we're going to try it, we're going to adjust it when we find things aren't working, and we're slowly adjusting to find the right thing. If we scrap it and start new every time, we never make any progress. So that's why I'm asking you to stick with me for two to three months as we settle this in. And we'll we'll make adjustments as we go. And we will get there. But we do. Instead of always reinventing the wheel, we want to adjust what we have so that we're not spending so much time on the planning fees and more time on the actual implementation phase and the adjustment phase, so that we're using our resources wisely. Patricia Sung 01:22 Okay, our next obstacle is that a lot of us like to be dazzle our bullet journals. Well, like I said, I love a good office, why I love a beautiful flare pen. It is fun, it is enjoyable. It's a welcome distraction, right. And that's okay, our brain needs those downtime. So our brain has creative outlets, and maybe that is doodling in the side of your notebook. Like, that's okay, but let's
2. recognize it for what it is we're giving our brain a break, we're enjoying our creativity, we're taking a little breather, maybe we feel like, overwhelmed, and we want to leave that space and we're using it as a form of procrastination. That's totally fine. Patricia Sung 02:08 Our brain needs those breaks. We want to recognize that so that we're not using that as a as a okay, I thought it was a recording, like, how are we going to admit? We want to make sure that we are recognizing that for what it is so that we can catch ourselves and be like, Okay, I see my brain needs a little bit of break right now. And that way we can take that time, but then we know Okay, now we're gonna get back into what I'm really here for. And the reason I'm using this planner is for go back to your why. And instead of it being kind of this, like unwieldy distraction process, that makes sense. Patricia Sung 03:02 Okay. Next obstacle we run into is the old old do that later. No, let's not pretend we're not going to later, we're not going to remember, just want to go. I know, it's hard to be honest with ourselves, it is scary, because we start looking at, you know, all the ways that we aren't measuring up to where we want to be, you know, what, we have any two brains, it is okay, we're not going to do everything perfectly. No one does even with a regular brain. And we want to be honest with ourselves and say, You know what, I like to say, I'm going to do that later. But I'm not. Patricia Sung 03:38 So when I get my new event, I am right away, going to put that in my notebook. And when it is time to enter, then I'm going to do it right now. setting that expectation with yourself. It again, it takes time, if you even do this 10% of the time, or 50% of the time, you're gonna make progress on getting your calendar organized. So you know, don't beat yourself up. We want to do it right away. Otherwise, our brain is on to the next awesome idea. And things get lost in the shuffle. Patricia Sung 04:09 We are going to set up an emergency plan for situations where like, something's going down, you know, some kids causing trouble when you're supposed to be bring down this thing like well have an emergency plan in place, but we're only going to use that for emergencies. It's not going to be a dumping ground for things to do later. Because then they get overwhelming and we don't stick with them. So let's pause there and then we'll continue more on our obstacles and justification.