Are you daydreaming to escape doing the actual work?
Quick disclaimer. This is all food for thought and just a fun for ME to explore these ideas.
In this week’s Hill Sprint session we spoke about dreams , goals , and wants . We spoke about imagining your ideal life and daydreaming all the things you want. This can be a productive exercise when followed up with a action plan and you start then and there to take action on that dream but if your life me and most of us we tend to procrastinate. This made me think about this idea of daydreaming. What is it? And why do so many of us identify with being a “day dreamer” and not being a “day doer”?
Often I catch myself in daydreams and they are fun to get lost in them but getting in lost in them too long and often leads me to over analyzing, overthinking , procrastination and then you feel stuck and have no momentum to do the very thing you were daydreaming about. The above picture I found very helpful in distinguishing productive daydreaming vs non productive daydreaming.
In my experience a lot of frustrations in life come from wanting or desiring an outcome that its not happening fast enough or just not happening or it appears in the near so distance future it’s not happening. Whats the cure?
Day Doer Identity
This label or identity of being a DAY DOER is someone who does the thing they are dreaming about. Taking consistent action on a daily basis.(this is important because you keep it in the Waking active memory). Instead of thinking or talking about your dream life, start doing something towards it… preferably first thing in the AM when you have the most will power.
Waking Active memory
Your waking active memory is the the way you see yourself during your waking hours. Your waking active memory is is fluid and changes based on the decisions your making during those waking hours.