How a Ta-Da! list Can Help You When You Don’t Have the Spoons.
A Simple Trick to Motivate When You’re Low Energy
It’s 10.30 am and so far this morning:
- Got up, got dressed, made coffee
- Checked Medium partner earnings only to discover I was too early for the update.
- Browsed my e-mails
- Answered comments and read stories on Medium
- Did a bit of competitioning
- Tidied kitchen a little bit
- Checked on Medium partner earnings again
- Listen to Sara Canon on Youtube
- E-mailed my writing friend, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
- Walked to the post office to return a parcel
- Then went to Yassar Halim to pick up a litre tub of hummus and bread
- Decided I wasn’t strong enough to continue the journey to do more chores and walked home
- Put away bread and hummus
- Tidied the kitchen a bit more
- Settled down on the settee
- Rough drafted this story
- Watched Rick and Morty
So what?
You might be wondering. Why is Deborah showing me this list of ordinariness?
What you’re reading is my Ta-Da! list.
I adapted this from Gretchen Rubin who suggested this in her podcast, Happier. The theory is that everyone falls into one of for tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels.
A rebel doesn’t want to follow a to-do list. So a Ta-Da! list is a useful motivation for them.
But I use it when I'm sick or just tired.
Today, I’m under the weather. But I find joy plodding on regardless.
When you haven’t got the spoons
A Ta-Da! list can make you feel better. It shows that you’ve done some things, even though you’re weak.
And make you feel like a rootin’ tootin’ hero.
