Recently, I have been overwhelmed more than ever. Yes, it is caused by the AI avalanche, and I have written about it in my previous post. And will not mention it here again. It’s more about the feeling I have when summer creeps in, seeing everyone on holiday, chilling, and relaxing. It is the time when I recap the Q1 and Q2 (they are almost always slow and laborious). I always try to figure out what I am doing wrong and what I can do better, and it is always about doing more. And that is exhausting.
Recently, I have had enough posts and videos coming across my desktop with titles like these: Do less, to achieve more! Discover the slow-living lifestyle! Stop trying so hard! So I thought to myself, why don’t I try, at least for a while, to do less? I do not have to be on every social media ten times a day, I do not have to have ten research tools, and I do not have to have a new product every week.
I am not embracing the slow living lifestyle, yet, or hiring a van and going off to the mountains, no. But what I am doing is reducing the clutter, streamlining, and sticking to a very simple process. Actually, creating processes and structures that are basic and not overbloated – and take less time. So that is my summer plan. I call it “Do what you can strategy” while staying sane, not burning out, and fairly happy. Is it too much to ask? There is a fear, I admit that by doing that, I will miss something, I do not know what it is exactly, just feels strange. I somehow feel guilty by doing less…
And yes, it is nothing new. The saying: work smarter, not harder, comes to mind. We all have heard it. But how? I am doing this in my typical amateurish way:
- Looking at everything, every task I do regularly.
- Can I simplify it somehow?
- Can I drop it completely?
- Making a new visual workflow based on those three points above.
- Putting a time limit on the new tasks/assigning a day
- Reducing posting frequency on SM
Questions I have: Will this change anything? How will it show on my results? I am giving it 3 months, which will get me through Q3, and then I can decide for Q4 if I am going to stay with it or go back to my old ways.
So that is my summer, dear friends. I hope you all are having an awesome time and getting closer to your successful solopreneur dream đŸ™‚
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