🤯 5 year old me would be blown away this.
Instead of riding the tube for an hour to get to an office, I was riding waves in the morning before strolling to my chosen work place for the day by the beach.
And the reason I can do this is because I created a financial buffer for myself and sorted out my freelance finances. This allows me to be selective with UX gigs and wait for remote projects instead of taking on whatever I get.
I already have so much more than I ever dreamed of. And most of that isn’t because I set a goal. The majority of the best things that happened in my life were because I somehow fell into it.
I wanted to be a copywriter but my internship turned out to be a design gig.
I didn’t plan to freelance, even though it was at the back of my mind. But I quit when I started to hate my job and freelance gigs rolled in.
Some great things happen, even if you don’t set them as a goal.
So this year, I’m taking goal setting from a new angle. I’m going to try to remove the 2 things that slow me down the most:
1️⃣ Procrastination
2️⃣ Low self-esteem.
And both of them are the reason it took me forever to create this simple reel. Because while filming it, I spend way too much time finding an angle that would hide my belly rolls that I recently became so conscious of because my grandma told me I gained weight (the luxury of having Asian family 🫠) if I had a better self esteem, I would be able to ignore that comment and just do one take.
The amount of time I spent faffing about and procrastinate before a post is also frustrating. I just have one task: to post. And I spend so much time viewing other people’s content. Which can be useful, but stops me from doing the task I set for myself.
And while I still have many goals, this year I’m trying to focus on getting rid of those 2 things.
Follow @elisabethmayr on instagram to see how it’s going.
What bad habits or traits are you going to get rid of? Let me know in the comments below 👇
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Elisabeth Mayr
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