You Are Not Behind

You are not behind. Behind is just a thought.

There’s no official scoreboard of what you “should” have done by now.

You don’t need to catch up to a timeline YOU invented.

In your own life, there’s no such thing as being behind, or backlogged, or needing to catch up.

There are just things you want to do that you haven’t done yet.

The problem is the way you’re picturing your position in relation to your tasks.

You’ve been standing behind your to-do list, looking at it through the lens of everything you should have done already.

But that angle will always make you feel behind.

So shift into the present.

Put your expected tasks IN FRONT of you.

When I was at University, if I had two weeks to write an essay and there was one week left and I hadn’t started, I just imagined one week was all the time my professor ever gave me.

You can do that too.

One day to write a book chapter.
Three hours to get a client.
Two weeks to train for a marathon.

Start like now is exactly when you expected yourself to start.

You’re exactly on time.

Because how good does that feel?

And feeling good will help you make progress faster than feeling behind ever will.

So go take action now, right on time.