How to Approach Your Get-to-Do List

I’ve been coaching and teaching more and more about choosing to be peaceful in your work and ways to cultivate that.

If you’re feeling pressured by your get-to-do list at the moment, peaceful might be the last thing on your mind. Peaceful!? Who has time to be peaceful?!

Errr, that’s kind of the point. Believe me, I get tripped up by this too! Peace isn’t something you make time for.

Peace is a feeling that you carry into your work right from the start, or you bring in later if you forget.

Instead of that rushed, harried feeling when you have too much to do, you can go about your work in a peaceful way that leaves you with more energy to do everything you want to do. You get more done, see opportunities with more clarity, and deal with people more effectively. All great stuff.

This article isn’t about ways to cultivate more peace in your work. I’ve talked about that elsewhere, and will continue to coach on it, but in a different way (more about that in a second).

What I want to talk to you about is something even deeper than peace. It could change the way you look at your get-to-do list.

Being peaceful means being free of anxiety and worry about what might happen, being present to what is instead of ruminating about regrets and the past. Free from worry about, will people buy my stuff? Free from, I shoulda gotten my website up sooner. Being present to, wow, my website is out there! People are asking about my stuff!

So peace, really, is about freedom.

Freedom from all those things, anxiety, worry, regrets, but also freedom to choose to act (or not act) in a way that is unencumbered by those sticky spider web-y thoughts that hold us down, hold us back, and keep us from being truly creative in our work and our lives.

Isn’t freedom one of the big reasons you chose to be an entrepreneur in the first place?

Freedom goes deep. It goes beyond not having someone tell you how to spend your time at work.

It’s freedom from your own and other people’s constraints. Freedom to have a business you’re passionate about. Freedom to explore and experiment until you find a way to do that work so that it satisfies and fulfills you. Freedom to do the work you love, with the clients you love to work with.

With that freedom goes responsibility. You get the whole enchilada – the action (or non-action) and the outcome! And with that outcome, the freedom to make new choices.

When you look at your get-to-do list today, do a reset. You as an entrepreneur have the freedom to choose what goes on it, and how you’re going to be as you do it.

How does your get-to-do list look now? Hopefully, a whole lot more open and full of possibility.

Do you feel like you have freedom in your business? If so, how? If not, why not? Share in the comments below!

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Here’s your Alchemy Assignment, your chance to transform what you learned in this article into awareness and action for you and your business:

Start your freedom reset with your get-to-do list. What do you have planned for today? Knowing that you have the freedom to make choices, not just react, but create, would you change anything on that list? If the action itself doesn’t change, does it change how you planned to approach it? Take a few minutes at the start of each day with a recognition of your freedom, and then plan from there.