In the beginning of my own deslobification process, I called the things I was adding to my daily list nonnegotiable tasks. This was what they were in the beginning. I was figuring out which things had to be done daily and not allowing myself to negotiate my way out of those tasks. I am a master inside-my-own-brain negotiator. I can/could/do come up with a million reasons why now isn’t a good time, why it’s logical to wait until the mess is bigger. At some point, I started calling these nonnegotiables daily tasks. I’d whittled them down to the most essential and realized I didn’t need to keep
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