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Design your anxiety away

Designing your life starts with designing your days 

- A New Year special post


>> Start with One Small Thing

One of the many reasons I write this blog is that it gives me a sense of control, progress, and accomplishment. It’s a part of my life that’s deliberate and it also gives me a few focused hours a month of uninterrupted creation time.


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Start with any environment that makes up your life -

  • Clean your room
  • Organize your office
  • Take care of your plants
  • Update your social media profile to reflect who you want to become, not who you were in your past
  • Take a picture every day

One of the best ways to start a new chapter of your life is to start with one tiny, seemingly inconsequential aspect. The capacity to make a promise and sustain it becomes a self-fulfillment prophecy that causes a ripple effect in other areas of your life.


>> Designing Your Schedule

Between preparing for my di's wedding, doing assignments every week, and overseeing other projects last year my schedule was starting to get a bit chaotic. I found myself in back to back classes, events scheduled at times I wished they weren’t, and much more.


I needed to figure out how to create more time for myself. That’s when I realized that I can start marking these small things on my calendar and blackout those time slots for myself. So I made every other week unavailable for meetings with anyone. It’s just one of many simple ways you can design your schedule and take advantage of how effective calendars can be.


Again you can start with one small thing:
  • Design 30 minutes of reading time into your day
  • Design 45 minutes of workout into your day

It really does not matter what it is. The point is to take conscious control of a portion of your life that is set to default and to follow through with a certain commitment consistently.

>> Consistency is important

Consistency is an essential element if you're going to experience important and enduring improvement. Your habits become part of your personality when you're consistent with something.

>> Start Today

The defaults are set for most people's lives. Most people on their iPhone never change the ring. Most individuals never challenge anything that can only be changed by their ability to explore and demand. No matter how small it is, pick something, and start today. The best way to push your anxiety away is to start planning your life by designing your days.

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