When I told my dad my New Years resolution he laughed at me. Not maliciously or mockingly…but he’s not quite sure what I do currently. It seems I spend a few hours in front of a computer each morning and somehow support my wife and myself. It’s actually true.
I definitely don’t rock a full 40-hour work week. So when I told him my New Years resolution is to do less, he obviously laughed.
My goal for this year is to do less and to get more results. Does that sound like laziness to you? Keep reading, then let me know.
I want to trim down my to do list this year. I want to bring it down from sixteen recurring items each day to about ten items. But I want those ten items to produce more for me than the previous sixteen. Less work, more results.
I’m trying to create more margin in my life. My longterm goal is to write more. To produce more tiny projects. To be able to sit down for coffee with someone all day and not worry that I’m not getting anything done. Right now it’s difficult to do that because I’ve been filling my schedule with tons of tiny projects that produce a little here and there.
I want to create margin in my life for the dreams God places in my heart.
So when I say I want to do less this year, it’s actually because I want to do more. I want to minimize the waste in my schedule so I can have margin for the things that inspire me. More margin for the things that truly matter to me.
I’m not entirely sure how I’ll do that quite yet, but that’s where creativity comes in. I’ll probably start clumping daily activities into weekly activities. I might drop some projects here and there. But I’m going to make more room in my schedule.
Want to adopt my resolution as your own? Or do you think it’s lazy?
I’m sort’ve in the same place. Most of my New Year’s resolutions are to stop doing things so that I can maximize the things that most important.
One of the things on my list is to quit Instagram. Mostly because it consumes time through checking it or thinking about it that could be used for better things like spending time w/ my wife and kids and being mentally present during that time. There’s a lot more to that decision than just that and it was definitely influenced by this post by John Saddington: http://john.do/instagram/
But I’m with you. I want to do less with better results and more time to do things that matter.