Choice versus obligation

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

If you’re a loyal reader, you might have noticed that I did not publish a blog yesterday. What happened!?

We had guests for the weekend and I realized I hadn’t finished a blog just as I was going to bed. In the past, I would have pulled out my computer and got it done even at the cost of getting a good night’s sleep. Not this time; I recently decided that the blog was not my priority.

After reflecting on how I’ve been spending my time, I realized I wanted to spend more time reading and learning. I decided that I would give up my daily blog to free up some time. As sometimes happens, deciding that I didn’t need to write every day made the process a bit easier. Without the pressure, I wrote a bunch of blog posts with little effort and kept publishing daily…until yesterday.

So here we are. I will still publish new blogs as long as I can accomplish my more important tasks first. Without the pressure of imminent deadlines, maybe it will bring me even more joy. 😀

What do you do that seems a lot easier when you don’t see it as an obligation?

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