82. Short-Term and Long-Term Thinking
My knee has been hurting lately.
There are some short-term solutions that might ease the pain, like ice, ibuprofen, and rest.
And in terms of long-term solutions, there’s physical therapy, more supportive footwear, and strengthening my body. But all of these things take a while to work.
In this case, the short-term solutions will help move things along while the long-term solutions begin to take effect.
So, what does my knee have to do with your work life?
A lot, as it turns out.
Just like my knee, you may be feeling some pain, but for you maybe the pain is in relation to your career.
Maybe you want to switch industries, experience less stress, or get a big raise in your current job.
Like my knee pain, there’s often a long-term process for achieving these goals.
But we may also want apply some short-term solutions to create a better experience in the immediate future and during the journey to our ultimate goal.
So, how do you create more of what you’re craving in your current day-to-day while still working towards a big change in your life?
Tune in this week to find out.
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:
Why you need to give equal airtime to short-term as well as long-term solutions if you want to solve a big-picture problem.
The thought work I do with my clients as a short-term solution to prepare them for bigger changes in their professional life.
How delegation as a concept provides a great example of combining short-term and long-term solutions.
The importance of being able to distinguish the difference between urgent and important work and doing important work before it becomes urgent.
Where you might be getting stuck in either short-term or long-term thinking and sacrificing one over the other.
How to start balancing short-term and long-term thinking, so you can set yourself up for long-term success and short-term satisfaction.
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FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:
This week we’re talking about short-term thinking versus long-term thinking.
You are listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It, the podcast for ambitious, high-achieving women who are ready to stop feeling stressed about work and kiss burnout goodbye forever. Whether you’re starting a business or staying in your day job, this show will give you the coaching and guidance you need to start loving your work today. Here’s your host, Career Coach, Kori Linn.
Hey, y'all, happy Wednesday. Did I tell y'all that my knee has been hurting? I don't remember if I mentioned this before because it's been a little while, I think, since I've recorded a podcast. And I also have what I like to refer to as coach amnesia, which is probably just an adult with a brain where sometimes I literally can't remember the words I just said out of my face hole.
So anyways, my knee has been hurting and it's been going on off and on for a little while now. And I’ve changed shoes, I've gone to PT, I got new insoles, I iced it, I took ibuprofen, all these things. And anyways, it's feeling mostly better, but not 100%. But I think it's actually a really great example for what I want to talk about this week, which is the difference between short-term thinking and long-term thinking.
And in this case, it's going to be the difference between like short-term solutions, like how we think of short-term solutions and how we think of long-term solution. So solutions, thinking, planning, et cetera, et cetera.
So with my knee, a lot of times the short-term solution if it's hurting is like how do I take care of that immediately, right? So it may be, like some of the things I mentioned, it's maybe ice, it's maybe ibuprofen, it's maybe taking a shorter walk, even though y'all know I love my long walks around Midtown Sacramento. And so those are things that can be really helpful in the moment.
But for long-term thinking, it's PT, it's making sure I have shoes that fit well, because I had gotten new shoes and new insoles and I think that was part of the problem, is for some reason they didn't work with my knee. So I took those shoes and insoles back, went back to my old shoes, but got other new insoles. And with PT, they're like assessing me and they're giving me exercises to strengthen my body. But strengthening my body takes time, right?
So as the long-term solution is coming into play, we can use the short-term solution to like kind of help things along the way. So even once I started PT it's not like my knee felt better immediately, or like when I got rid of the old shoes, et cetera, et cetera. I was still needing to take shorter walks, I was still using ice, I was still taking ibuprofen, things like that.
Okay, so what does my knee have to do with your work life? Well, a lot, I would actually argue in this case. Because when y'all have problems or issues at work that aren't working, when you come to coaching and you want to create some kind of transformation, whether it's like switching to a new industry, or feeling less stressed about work, or getting a $25,000 raise. There's going to be usually a longer term process that we're going to go through to help create whatever it is you want to create. But we also need short term things to help, right, alleviate some of the pain or create a better experience.
Another example of this, which I think I originally heard from Brooke Castillo, was like if you're hungover, while you're hungover the solutions that are available to you are things like resting, drinking a lot of water, maybe if you can go back to bed, go back to bed. Whereas the long term solution is don't drink or drink less, right?
But when we're in the hangover we can't choose the drinking less, like that's a longer term thing. And when I was in the knee pain, I could begin the physical therapy, but the impacts of the physical therapy were going to take time to show up in the sensations I experience in my physical body.
And the same is true for you in the workplace. Like if you want to switch industries, let's say you want to switch industries and get a new job, that's not going to happen, probably, as soon as we decide that that's what you're doing and make a plan. There's going to be stuff in between.
And so then it's like, if that's the long-term plan, if our long-term thinking is that we're going to switch industries and we are beginning to take steps towards that, like maybe we're researching, we’re finding out stuff about potential new industries we're interested in, we're having coffee chats, we're doing informational interviews, right?
But then what's the short-term solution? What's the short-term thinking for how we create more of what we're craving in our day to day even if the big change that we're going for hasn't happened yet, right?
And same thing with a $25,000 raise, how do we give ourselves something that we're looking for, you know, with a $25,000 raise, we want that money, right? But that's like the long-term thing, that's the long-term solution. The long-term thinking is going to be about how we create that. The short-term thinking is about like what do I want in this moment while I'm gearing up to create that?
And with stuff like a raise, a lot of times people want to feel good about their work. So then we maybe need to begin to practice thoughts, right? Like, I'm really good at my job, I add all this value, like whatever the particular thoughts are. Whatever you think you'll be able to believe about yourself when you get the raise, you can begin practicing those thoughts now and enjoying like visualizing yourself in that place, even though the raise is going to take longer to happen.
Delegation is another area where we balance short-term thinking versus long-term thinking. In delegation the long term is we have this other person who can do the work. In the short-term we're training that person, so that's actually adding more of like, usually what we don't want. Like we have less time instead of having more time. So it's then what can we put into place in the short-term to balance that or to help us have a better experience even while we're doing this extra effort that isn't paying off yet?
And what I would offer is that with short-term and long-term thinking, a lot of times people kind of get stuck in one or the other, but I think it's really magical when we can embrace both. For a lot of people, I do think they actually get stuck in short-term thinking. They get stuck in like what can they do immediately, right?
And a long time ago I read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and he talked about, it was like a square and on one side it said urgent, and on one side it said important, and he talked about how a lot of people would get stuck and bogged down doing urgent work, whether the urgent work was important or not.
And he stressed the importance of doing important work, both the urgent important work and the non-urgent, important work. So you're doing that important work before it becomes urgent. So getting stuck in like, short-term thinking is just like thinking about how we're going to solve our problems now.
And there's a benefit to that, right? Like, just like with my knee, I needed some solutions right away to help with the pain. I mean, I guess, like did I need them? I wanted them. I wanted some solutions right away to help with the pain. And you are probably feeling that too if you have some pain in your career or some discomfort there, or some as yet unmet wild ambitions and dreams, right?
But if all we're doing is thinking in the short-term, then we're usually not setting ourselves up for success in the long term. We're usually not setting up systems and processes, right? A lot of times when I teach and give talks, some of the suggestions I make, people are going like, “I don't have enough time to do that.” And I'm like, this is just like delegation, you think you don't have enough time to do it.
And I get it, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I know a lot of us experience time crunches. But if we just stay in the short-term, like putting out fires and putting out fires and putting out fires, and never doing that long-term work and setting up systems and processes, then what are we going to have? We're going to always be stuck in that urgent work. We're going to be always stuck putting out fires.
Whereas when we balance short-term and long-term, then we can set ourselves up for more success in the long term and in the future. And then also give ourselves whatever it is we need right now, while also continuing to do whatever the most important urgent work, right?
We don't want to just be doing all the urgent work, as we learned so long ago from Stephen Covey, we want to be doing the essential urgent work. And then whatever little things we need to do to comfort ourselves and then also laying that groundwork for the future.
I think also, and this is a little bit similar to the podcast a few weeks ago about pleasure and gratification, there are some people as well who only do the long-term thinking, right? They're thinking about like what is going to be the most helpful in the long run, but they're not necessarily thinking about what needs to be solved in the short-term and what needs to be soothed in the short-term, like what needs to be cared for, right?
And so sometimes those people, and I can be in any of these categories at any given time, I'm multifaceted and capable of doing all of them. When we get in that headspace, like we can tend to white knuckle through things and kind of just like force ourselves, and discipline ourselves, and push ourselves. And that's really celebrated in our culture, so we might not even realize we're doing that or that that's something we might want to question.
But I think the thing with that is that sometimes it backfires, right? Like if I were doing the PT and things that I needed to take care of my knee, but I wasn't icing it and I wasn't doing shorter walks and I wasn't taking ibuprofen, and I was just trying to push it real hard, I might actually make my knee hurt worse.
It might injure my knee and then I'm going to wind up having an even longer long haul in front of me, instead of just doing the things I need to do care for my knee now, while I also lay the groundwork for the long-term healing through the things like physical therapy and appropriate footwear. Okay?
And so same thing too, like if we're trying to hop industries and we're like, okay, I'm just not going to do anything to make myself feel better in the current job, I'm just going to knuckle down and do all this long-term work, I think a lot of times for a lot of people can create burnout, because they're sacrificing the short-term in favor of the long-term. And then other people are sacrificing the long-term in favor of the short-term.
So what I'm going to offer, as I've probably already stated, but will state again clearly right now, is that these are two skills that we can use together and in tandem. And that when we use them and balance them, then that's where I think we have the capacity to have a really incredible experience in the now and in the long term.
And there's another concept that's related that I kind of want to drop on top of this too. I heard this in some coaching call, I think it might have been through the Life Coach School, and the person said, “When you're creating your calendar, you want to kind of bring to the table the in the moment you who will be doing the work, and the planning you who is deciding how much work they think you should be doing or how much work they'll be happy you did.”
Because some people only plan with that short-term, like what will I want to do? And some people only plan with that long-term, like they'll have that crazy to-do list or they’re like we should be to do all these 100,000 things. And the in the moment version of them is like, fuck you, right? So when we bring both of these people to the table, inner people, right? When we bring both of them to the table, then we can come to like kind of a solution together that works for everybody.
It's like kind of a compromise, right? The future oriented you or like the long-term you will be like, I should be able to do a million things and like get really far. And the short-term thinking you or the in the moment you will be like, okay, but I don't want to work myself to the bone and I also have needs and I want to be able to like take a break and get up and go to the bathroom. And I need to do some stuff that's going to help me feel good in the moment because I'm not trying to sacrifice my now for future success.
And when we bring both of those pieces together, I think what we get is like we do enough work to make progress in the long run, but we don't do so much work that we're overworking ourselves in the moment, and we don't burn ourselves out.
I also think that when we bring this combination of the short-term and the long-term, it's kind of just like a lot more fun for all of us. And when I say all of us, I mean like the in the moment us who's doing the work, and then also like the planning part of us who is trying to achieve our goals, and also the future us who wants to be set up for success, right? Everybody wins.
And I think this is actually a really important point because so often I think we're looking at our lives thinking something has to be sacrificed, like someone's not going to get what they want. Even within ourselves as like one person, it's like someone's not going to get what they want. Either in the moment me is not going to get what I want, or future me is not going to get what they want because in the moment me probably wants to take a walk or watch Netflix. But future me is hoping we've done something productive.
Whereas when we bring both of these frames together, then we can set it up so that everyone gets what they want. Like right now I'm recording this podcast, and then after I record this podcast I'm going to take a walk, right? So that's setting up both of the internal me's for success and for happiness, and kind of achieving things that are in both of their ideas of what they would like my life to be like. I know, probably I sound a little wild talking about they when I'm talking about me, but this is kind of how I think about it.
So let's think about you and your life, what have you been grappling with that you've either been stuck in the short-term, like just keep putting out fires and keep putting out fires and keep putting out fires, versus setting up systems and processes so that fires stop happening? And where are you stuck in the long-term where you're like doing all this work without giving yourself any soothing or comfort in the moment?
And you may find, like me, that you do different things in different areas. Like you may find in some areas you get very stuck in short-term solutions and short-term thinking. And you may find in other areas you get very stuck in long-term thinking and long-term solutions. And then the question is what happens when you bring both of these types of thinking to the problem solving of this situation?
What happens when you bring in the moment you, and planning you, and future you to the conversation to figure out what everyone can agree on. And, obviously, I don't know what that's going to be for you, but what I would offer is it's probably going to be something that gets you a lot further, while also being much more sustainable.
Because for a lot of us, we’re either getting a lot done in the moment but then not getting as far as we want to overall. Or we're like moving along overall but not able to enjoy any of our moments. And what I would offer is that like what if we can have both of those things? Obviously, life will still be 50/50 It's not about getting this perfect, it's just about understanding how to apply multiple kinds of thinking to a problem to create a really satisfying outcome where nothing has to be sacrificed.
And listen, when I say nothing has to be sacrificed, that doesn't mean nothing will go undone, because probably some things will go undone because as humans most of us are trying to do just absolute fuckloads of things. And yeah, so probably some things won't get done, but I don't think that has to mean the important things don't get done.
And when you sit down with your short-term and long-term thinking, and when you sit down with in the moment you, planning you, and future you, they can figure out together, or rather you can figure out with all these parts of yourselves, what matters most and how to accomplish that in a way that feels good to you. And that's what I want for me, that's what I want for all of us.
And listen, you don't have to do this work alone. I would love to guide you through this and to help you create a life and a career that's more satisfying in the moment and with what you accomplish over time. I am no longer taking consults for Satisfied As Fuck, it is nearly full so I'm only going to complete the consults that are already on my books.
But I would love to hop on a consult with you for one on one coaching and I'll be taking new clients, people who sign up now will start in August. So just think what we could accomplish even starting in August with the rest of 2022. You can blow your mind with what you can accomplish in the short-term and in the long-term.
All right y’all, that's what I have for you today. Have a great day and I will talk to you next week.
Thank you for listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It. We'll have another episode for you next week. And in the meantime, if you're feeling super fired up, head on over to korilinn.com for more guidance and resources.
You are listening to Love Your Job Before You Leave It, the podcast for ambitious, high-achieving women who are ready to stop feeling stressed about work and kiss burnout goodbye forever. Whether you’re starting a business or staying in your day job, this show will give you the coaching and guidance you need to start loving your work today. Here’s your host, Career Coach, Kori Linn.
Hey, y'all, happy Wednesday. Did I tell y'all that my knee has been hurting? I don't remember if I mentioned this before because it's been a little while, I think, since I've recorded a podcast. And I also have what I like to refer to as coach amnesia, which is probably just an adult with a brain where sometimes I literally can't remember the words I just said out of my face hole.
So anyways, my knee has been hurting and it's been going on off and on for a little while now. And I’ve changed shoes, I've gone to PT, I got new insoles, I iced it, I took ibuprofen, all these things. And anyways, it's feeling mostly better, but not 100%. But I think it's actually a really great example for what I want to talk about this week, which is the difference between short-term thinking and long-term thinking.
And in this case, it's going to be the difference between like short-term solutions, like how we think of short-term solutions and how we think of long-term solution. So solutions, thinking, planning, et cetera, et cetera.
So with my knee, a lot of times the short-term solution if it's hurting is like how do I take care of that immediately, right? So it may be, like some of the things I mentioned, it's maybe ice, it's maybe ibuprofen, it's maybe taking a shorter walk, even though y'all know I love my long walks around Midtown Sacramento. And so those are things that can be really helpful in the moment.
But for long-term thinking, it's PT, it's making sure I have shoes that fit well, because I had gotten new shoes and new insoles and I think that was part of the problem, is for some reason they didn't work with my knee. So I took those shoes and insoles back, went back to my old shoes, but got other new insoles. And with PT, they're like assessing me and they're giving me exercises to strengthen my body. But strengthening my body takes time, right?
So as the long-term solution is coming into play, we can use the short-term solution to like kind of help things along the way. So even once I started PT it's not like my knee felt better immediately, or like when I got rid of the old shoes, et cetera, et cetera. I was still needing to take shorter walks, I was still using ice, I was still taking ibuprofen, things like that.
Okay, so what does my knee have to do with your work life? Well, a lot, I would actually argue in this case. Because when y'all have problems or issues at work that aren't working, when you come to coaching and you want to create some kind of transformation, whether it's like switching to a new industry, or feeling less stressed about work, or getting a $25,000 raise. There's going to be usually a longer term process that we're going to go through to help create whatever it is you want to create. But we also need short term things to help, right, alleviate some of the pain or create a better experience.
Another example of this, which I think I originally heard from Brooke Castillo, was like if you're hungover, while you're hungover the solutions that are available to you are things like resting, drinking a lot of water, maybe if you can go back to bed, go back to bed. Whereas the long term solution is don't drink or drink less, right?
But when we're in the hangover we can't choose the drinking less, like that's a longer term thing. And when I was in the knee pain, I could begin the physical therapy, but the impacts of the physical therapy were going to take time to show up in the sensations I experience in my physical body.
And the same is true for you in the workplace. Like if you want to switch industries, let's say you want to switch industries and get a new job, that's not going to happen, probably, as soon as we decide that that's what you're doing and make a plan. There's going to be stuff in between.
And so then it's like, if that's the long-term plan, if our long-term thinking is that we're going to switch industries and we are beginning to take steps towards that, like maybe we're researching, we’re finding out stuff about potential new industries we're interested in, we're having coffee chats, we're doing informational interviews, right?
But then what's the short-term solution? What's the short-term thinking for how we create more of what we're craving in our day to day even if the big change that we're going for hasn't happened yet, right?
And same thing with a $25,000 raise, how do we give ourselves something that we're looking for, you know, with a $25,000 raise, we want that money, right? But that's like the long-term thing, that's the long-term solution. The long-term thinking is going to be about how we create that. The short-term thinking is about like what do I want in this moment while I'm gearing up to create that?
And with stuff like a raise, a lot of times people want to feel good about their work. So then we maybe need to begin to practice thoughts, right? Like, I'm really good at my job, I add all this value, like whatever the particular thoughts are. Whatever you think you'll be able to believe about yourself when you get the raise, you can begin practicing those thoughts now and enjoying like visualizing yourself in that place, even though the raise is going to take longer to happen.
Delegation is another area where we balance short-term thinking versus long-term thinking. In delegation the long term is we have this other person who can do the work. In the short-term we're training that person, so that's actually adding more of like, usually what we don't want. Like we have less time instead of having more time. So it's then what can we put into place in the short-term to balance that or to help us have a better experience even while we're doing this extra effort that isn't paying off yet?
And what I would offer is that with short-term and long-term thinking, a lot of times people kind of get stuck in one or the other, but I think it's really magical when we can embrace both. For a lot of people, I do think they actually get stuck in short-term thinking. They get stuck in like what can they do immediately, right?
And a long time ago I read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and he talked about, it was like a square and on one side it said urgent, and on one side it said important, and he talked about how a lot of people would get stuck and bogged down doing urgent work, whether the urgent work was important or not.
And he stressed the importance of doing important work, both the urgent important work and the non-urgent, important work. So you're doing that important work before it becomes urgent. So getting stuck in like, short-term thinking is just like thinking about how we're going to solve our problems now.
And there's a benefit to that, right? Like, just like with my knee, I needed some solutions right away to help with the pain. I mean, I guess, like did I need them? I wanted them. I wanted some solutions right away to help with the pain. And you are probably feeling that too if you have some pain in your career or some discomfort there, or some as yet unmet wild ambitions and dreams, right?
But if all we're doing is thinking in the short-term, then we're usually not setting ourselves up for success in the long term. We're usually not setting up systems and processes, right? A lot of times when I teach and give talks, some of the suggestions I make, people are going like, “I don't have enough time to do that.” And I'm like, this is just like delegation, you think you don't have enough time to do it.
And I get it, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I know a lot of us experience time crunches. But if we just stay in the short-term, like putting out fires and putting out fires and putting out fires, and never doing that long-term work and setting up systems and processes, then what are we going to have? We're going to always be stuck in that urgent work. We're going to be always stuck putting out fires.
Whereas when we balance short-term and long-term, then we can set ourselves up for more success in the long term and in the future. And then also give ourselves whatever it is we need right now, while also continuing to do whatever the most important urgent work, right?
We don't want to just be doing all the urgent work, as we learned so long ago from Stephen Covey, we want to be doing the essential urgent work. And then whatever little things we need to do to comfort ourselves and then also laying that groundwork for the future.
I think also, and this is a little bit similar to the podcast a few weeks ago about pleasure and gratification, there are some people as well who only do the long-term thinking, right? They're thinking about like what is going to be the most helpful in the long run, but they're not necessarily thinking about what needs to be solved in the short-term and what needs to be soothed in the short-term, like what needs to be cared for, right?
And so sometimes those people, and I can be in any of these categories at any given time, I'm multifaceted and capable of doing all of them. When we get in that headspace, like we can tend to white knuckle through things and kind of just like force ourselves, and discipline ourselves, and push ourselves. And that's really celebrated in our culture, so we might not even realize we're doing that or that that's something we might want to question.
But I think the thing with that is that sometimes it backfires, right? Like if I were doing the PT and things that I needed to take care of my knee, but I wasn't icing it and I wasn't doing shorter walks and I wasn't taking ibuprofen, and I was just trying to push it real hard, I might actually make my knee hurt worse.
It might injure my knee and then I'm going to wind up having an even longer long haul in front of me, instead of just doing the things I need to do care for my knee now, while I also lay the groundwork for the long-term healing through the things like physical therapy and appropriate footwear. Okay?
And so same thing too, like if we're trying to hop industries and we're like, okay, I'm just not going to do anything to make myself feel better in the current job, I'm just going to knuckle down and do all this long-term work, I think a lot of times for a lot of people can create burnout, because they're sacrificing the short-term in favor of the long-term. And then other people are sacrificing the long-term in favor of the short-term.
So what I'm going to offer, as I've probably already stated, but will state again clearly right now, is that these are two skills that we can use together and in tandem. And that when we use them and balance them, then that's where I think we have the capacity to have a really incredible experience in the now and in the long term.
And there's another concept that's related that I kind of want to drop on top of this too. I heard this in some coaching call, I think it might have been through the Life Coach School, and the person said, “When you're creating your calendar, you want to kind of bring to the table the in the moment you who will be doing the work, and the planning you who is deciding how much work they think you should be doing or how much work they'll be happy you did.”
Because some people only plan with that short-term, like what will I want to do? And some people only plan with that long-term, like they'll have that crazy to-do list or they’re like we should be to do all these 100,000 things. And the in the moment version of them is like, fuck you, right? So when we bring both of these people to the table, inner people, right? When we bring both of them to the table, then we can come to like kind of a solution together that works for everybody.
It's like kind of a compromise, right? The future oriented you or like the long-term you will be like, I should be able to do a million things and like get really far. And the short-term thinking you or the in the moment you will be like, okay, but I don't want to work myself to the bone and I also have needs and I want to be able to like take a break and get up and go to the bathroom. And I need to do some stuff that's going to help me feel good in the moment because I'm not trying to sacrifice my now for future success.
And when we bring both of those pieces together, I think what we get is like we do enough work to make progress in the long run, but we don't do so much work that we're overworking ourselves in the moment, and we don't burn ourselves out.
I also think that when we bring this combination of the short-term and the long-term, it's kind of just like a lot more fun for all of us. And when I say all of us, I mean like the in the moment us who's doing the work, and then also like the planning part of us who is trying to achieve our goals, and also the future us who wants to be set up for success, right? Everybody wins.
And I think this is actually a really important point because so often I think we're looking at our lives thinking something has to be sacrificed, like someone's not going to get what they want. Even within ourselves as like one person, it's like someone's not going to get what they want. Either in the moment me is not going to get what I want, or future me is not going to get what they want because in the moment me probably wants to take a walk or watch Netflix. But future me is hoping we've done something productive.
Whereas when we bring both of these frames together, then we can set it up so that everyone gets what they want. Like right now I'm recording this podcast, and then after I record this podcast I'm going to take a walk, right? So that's setting up both of the internal me's for success and for happiness, and kind of achieving things that are in both of their ideas of what they would like my life to be like. I know, probably I sound a little wild talking about they when I'm talking about me, but this is kind of how I think about it.
So let's think about you and your life, what have you been grappling with that you've either been stuck in the short-term, like just keep putting out fires and keep putting out fires and keep putting out fires, versus setting up systems and processes so that fires stop happening? And where are you stuck in the long-term where you're like doing all this work without giving yourself any soothing or comfort in the moment?
And you may find, like me, that you do different things in different areas. Like you may find in some areas you get very stuck in short-term solutions and short-term thinking. And you may find in other areas you get very stuck in long-term thinking and long-term solutions. And then the question is what happens when you bring both of these types of thinking to the problem solving of this situation?
What happens when you bring in the moment you, and planning you, and future you to the conversation to figure out what everyone can agree on. And, obviously, I don't know what that's going to be for you, but what I would offer is it's probably going to be something that gets you a lot further, while also being much more sustainable.
Because for a lot of us, we’re either getting a lot done in the moment but then not getting as far as we want to overall. Or we're like moving along overall but not able to enjoy any of our moments. And what I would offer is that like what if we can have both of those things? Obviously, life will still be 50/50 It's not about getting this perfect, it's just about understanding how to apply multiple kinds of thinking to a problem to create a really satisfying outcome where nothing has to be sacrificed.
And listen, when I say nothing has to be sacrificed, that doesn't mean nothing will go undone, because probably some things will go undone because as humans most of us are trying to do just absolute fuckloads of things. And yeah, so probably some things won't get done, but I don't think that has to mean the important things don't get done.
And when you sit down with your short-term and long-term thinking, and when you sit down with in the moment you, planning you, and future you, they can figure out together, or rather you can figure out with all these parts of yourselves, what matters most and how to accomplish that in a way that feels good to you. And that's what I want for me, that's what I want for all of us.
And listen, you don't have to do this work alone. I would love to guide you through this and to help you create a life and a career that's more satisfying in the moment and with what you accomplish over time. I am no longer taking consults for Satisfied As Fuck, it is nearly full so I'm only going to complete the consults that are already on my books.
But I would love to hop on a consult with you for one on one coaching and I'll be taking new clients, people who sign up now will start in August. So just think what we could accomplish even starting in August with the rest of 2022. You can blow your mind with what you can accomplish in the short-term and in the long-term.
All right y’all, that's what I have for you today. Have a great day and I will talk to you next week.
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