Why Self-Awareness Leads to Overthinking (And Feels Like Pressure)

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Being self-aware is both a boon and a bane. It neither holds me back nor helps me grow faster. The more I know myself, the more my brain thinks. The self-aware spider makes a web of thoughts within the mind. Messy thoughts didn't just affect my words, they exhausted my energy, leaving me blank. Constantly thinking about improvement has become my pattern. Doing it continuously exposes my flaws and mistakes. And knowing the pattern makes it harder to ignore them. Whenever I think, my brain struggles between thoughts of flaws and improvement. Mental noise replaces clarity in this conflict. While writing blogs, clarity plays a significant role in giving words to the voice. But sometimes I fumble while writing words for my thoughts and learnings. I begin analysing in between more than expressing. I constantly look after the thoughts I write, ensuring they define my emotions and thoughts completely. Clarity struggles and turns into constant questioning. I remember a specific...

Why You Can’t Do Everything Every Day (And Why That’s Okay)?

Every day feels energetic but didn't feel complete until I learned my limits. The thought might be quite unstructured and complex, but the intentions are not. Facing the actual truth was the moment when I understood my expectations for output. I usually start my day aiming to utilize it for maximum productivity. But I was not aware of the true meaning of productivity.

When circumstances began to change during this writing journey, I learned the unseen perspectives of productivity. The one which I understood was all about setting the aim and completing it, and that's it. Nevertheless, it's not about achieving the objective but about the honest effort I pour to achieve my goal.

Wanting and presence have been a loop of learnings for me. The day I started writing, I adopted a habit to reread my previous blog to improve the next one. I observed my mistakes and made sure to avoid them in my upcoming thoughts. However, every single day I forget to improve all the flaws I observed except a few. But it didn't mean I ended up unproductive; at least, I win over one flaw every day.

I remember an incident from my initial days of the journey. As a result of my adoptive habit, I was ready with my list of flaws to work upon that day. It was all about the correct preference of words and sentences to express true emotions and fix grammar. That day, I ended up writing a blog with a few grammatical errors. However, I completed and published it.

That day I realised everything is not to be done forcibly. It should all be according to priority. And at that time, I prioritized my emotions to be expressed through efficient words. Despite some grammatical errors, my blog carried my voice in the best way.

I felt unhappy improving a few flaws, but I was energetic giving my best effort of the day. At last, it was all about my limitations of energy and time. My day ended guilt-free with satisfaction and motivation to put in some extra effort for my improvement.

Progress doesn't mean completion of all the tasks. It's all about doing the task with the best and honest effort; being less doesn't matter.

Doing everything every day has been my exception, not expectation.

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