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Compartmentalizing, Obsession and Time Blocking. This week I want to walk you through my experience with these three things, share how I think they are related, and strategize how we can use them to get creative shit done.
Complete Guide To Time Blocking
Time Blocking 101
Best Time Blocking Apps
Obsession: Your Key...
Obsessive People Likely To Be Successful
Final Scene, Six Feet Under, featuring "Breathe Me" by Sia
Is Six Feet Under's Finale the Best Finale of All Time?
Oxygen Not Include Game Trailer
Life-Changing Habit of Journaling
Full Show Notes:
The X Factor: Australia, Food Network Star, The Tyra Banks Show, The Apprentice:UK, Deal Or No Deal, Noah's Ark, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Go Diego Go, So You Think You Can Dance, Intervention, Mock Of The Week, The Colbert Report, Entertainment Tonight: Canada, Dancing With The Stars, The Deadliest Catch, The Boondocks, Everybody Hates Chris, Ghost Whisperer, The Sweet Life of Zach And Cody, American Dad, Avatar The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon), Bones, America (Brazilian drama), How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Who (reboot), Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, and The Office…. All shows that premiered in 2005.
Hey, hi and hello! Welcome to Creative4evr. The podcast dedicated to keeping you forever inspired, forever motivated, forever creative, and forever YOU. I am your host, Janet, a.k.a. Jai//Em, a.k.a. the voice inside your head, a.k.a. your biggest fan, and together we’re going to get some creative shit done.
All right! First, I want to make sure that everybody is staying safe and doing what they need to do to take care of themselves during this terrible time of Coronavirus (Covid-19). This outbreak is worldwide, as you know. Please continue to take care of yourselves, be safe, stay inside as much as you can, please, please, please so that we can #flattenthecurve and get through this.
I thought it was going to be maybe a month, but it looks like it could be much longer than that. But we can do it! Take care of yourselves, take care of each other. I'm thinking about you.
All right, so this week we're going to talk about three things: Compartmentalizing, Obsession and Time Blocking. I've had to get very serious about these three things so that I can get out of my own way to be as productive and creative as possible day-to-day, week-to-week. I thought this would be a great thing to share with you. How I think compartmentalizing, obsession and time-blocking are related, and strategize how you can use these things to get creative shit done.
COMPARTMENTALIZING
Do you compartmentalize? Do you do it all the time, most of the time or occasionally?
Compartmentalize means to divide into sections or categories. Most often associated with emotions and feelings. The best example I guess would be someone that is in a relationship and yells at their partner, You never tell me what you're feeling. I never know what you're going through because you never share, it never comes out of you. You are compartmentalizing and I'm not a part of those areas of your life and I want to be…
I'm just making something up right but basically, when we think of “compartmentalizing” we usually think about emotions and feelings and whether people are dividing those emotions and feelings into certain categories of their lives and not sharing them outside of those categories. Or if they do, feelings and emotions from all sections of their life affect all other parts of their life.
When I started writing this episode, I immediately wrote the words, "I compartmentalize all the time.” And then I was like, you damn liar. You absolutely do not compartmentalize all the time, not even most of the time. I already said the word is most often associated with feelings and emotions, and…have I met myself?
Remember back when Six Feet Under was the HBO TV show that everyone was obsessed with? Well when that show ended in 2005… And I remember watching the finale (crying the entire time). I then immediately downloaded the song "Breathe Me" by Sia, which plays over the last 10 minutes of the finale, and then fell into a deep depression. This tells you right from jump, I wasn’t compartmentalizing my emotions because I let this made up story, I saw on TV depress me. Then I let those feelings bleed into my actual life. God help someone if they hadn't watched the show and I found out about it. I was immediately like, What do you mean, you haven’t seen the show?! What are you watching instead?.......... Ummm, so I don’t know what you are doing with your life, but no one is gonna be thinking about those shows you just mentioned in 15 years. You need to watch Six Feet Under so you understand WHY I’m so upset, WHY I’m attacking you at work…
So, I’m being hyperbolic (but only a little a bit). My point is, I don’t usually compartmentalize. I carry emotions and feelings from one situation right on into the next one. And you know what? I am okay with that! Notice when I initially asked you the question, I did not say, Are you GOOD or BAD at compartmentalizing? I don’t want you to judge yourself if you don’t do it, nor do I want you to praise yourself for doing it. Too often we assign value to our personal characteristics or habits for no reason. Thou shall not compartmentalize! is not a thing. Compartmentalizing is Golden! is also not a thing. You either do it often or you don’t. Simple as that.
And what I have discovered this week through asking other people about their compartmentalizing habits, is that most of the time when someone does compartmentalize, it’s to section-off the bad feelings and emotions they have. Example: After a shitty day at work… Well most of us ATTEMPT to compartmentalize the feelings and emotions associated with that bad day and leave them at work. We try not to bring that energy home with us. I’m not saying we’re successful, I’m saying we try. However, when most of us have a great day at work, we want to bring those positive emotions and feelings home with us. We try to take that good energy with us everywhere.
And thinking about it this way, leads to me to believe that the closer each of us gets to living our best life, the less compartmentalizing of emotions and feelings we’ll do because that energy, those emotions and...
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Links & Quick Notes:
Compartmentalizing, Obsession and Time Blocking. This week I want to walk you through my experience with these three things, share how I think they are related, and strategize how we can use them to get creative shit done.
Complete Guide To Time Blocking
Time Blocking 101
Best Time Blocking Apps
Obsession: Your Key...
Obsessive People Likely To Be Successful
Final Scene, Six Feet Under, featuring "Breathe Me" by Sia
Is Six Feet Under's Finale the Best Finale of All Time?
Oxygen Not Include Game Trailer
Life-Changing Habit of Journaling
Full Show Notes:
The X Factor: Australia, Food Network Star, The Tyra Banks Show, The Apprentice:UK, Deal Or No Deal, Noah's Ark, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Go Diego Go, So You Think You Can Dance, Intervention, Mock Of The Week, The Colbert Report, Entertainment Tonight: Canada, Dancing With The Stars, The Deadliest Catch, The Boondocks, Everybody Hates Chris, Ghost Whisperer, The Sweet Life of Zach And Cody, American Dad, Avatar The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon), Bones, America (Brazilian drama), How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Who (reboot), Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, and The Office…. All shows that premiered in 2005.
Hey, hi and hello! Welcome to Creative4evr. The podcast dedicated to keeping you forever inspired, forever motivated, forever creative, and forever YOU. I am your host, Janet, a.k.a. Jai//Em, a.k.a. the voice inside your head, a.k.a. your biggest fan, and together we’re going to get some creative shit done.
All right! First, I want to make sure that everybody is staying safe and doing what they need to do to take care of themselves during this terrible time of Coronavirus (Covid-19). This outbreak is worldwide, as you know. Please continue to take care of yourselves, be safe, stay inside as much as you can, please, please, please so that we can #flattenthecurve and get through this.
I thought it was going to be maybe a month, but it looks like it could be much longer than that. But we can do it! Take care of yourselves, take care of each other. I'm thinking about you.
All right, so this week we're going to talk about three things: Compartmentalizing, Obsession and Time Blocking. I've had to get very serious about these three things so that I can get out of my own way to be as productive and creative as possible day-to-day, week-to-week. I thought this would be a great thing to share with you. How I think compartmentalizing, obsession and time-blocking are related, and strategize how you can use these things to get creative shit done.
COMPARTMENTALIZING
Do you compartmentalize? Do you do it all the time, most of the time or occasionally?
Compartmentalize means to divide into sections or categories. Most often associated with emotions and feelings. The best example I guess would be someone that is in a relationship and yells at their partner, You never tell me what you're feeling. I never know what you're going through because you never share, it never comes out of you. You are compartmentalizing and I'm not a part of those areas of your life and I want to be…
I'm just making something up right but basically, when we think of “compartmentalizing” we usually think about emotions and feelings and whether people are dividing those emotions and feelings into certain categories of their lives and not sharing them outside of those categories. Or if they do, feelings and emotions from all sections of their life affect all other parts of their life.
When I started writing this episode, I immediately wrote the words, "I compartmentalize all the time.” And then I was like, you damn liar. You absolutely do not compartmentalize all the time, not even most of the time. I already said the word is most often associated with feelings and emotions, and…have I met myself?
Remember back when Six Feet Under was the HBO TV show that everyone was obsessed with? Well when that show ended in 2005… And I remember watching the finale (crying the entire time). I then immediately downloaded the song "Breathe Me" by Sia, which plays over the last 10 minutes of the finale, and then fell into a deep depression. This tells you right from jump, I wasn’t compartmentalizing my emotions because I let this made up story, I saw on TV depress me. Then I let those feelings bleed into my actual life. God help someone if they hadn't watched the show and I found out about it. I was immediately like, What do you mean, you haven’t seen the show?! What are you watching instead?.......... Ummm, so I don’t know what you are doing with your life, but no one is gonna be thinking about those shows you just mentioned in 15 years. You need to watch Six Feet Under so you understand WHY I’m so upset, WHY I’m attacking you at work…
So, I’m being hyperbolic (but only a little a bit). My point is, I don’t usually compartmentalize. I carry emotions and feelings from one situation right on into the next one. And you know what? I am okay with that! Notice when I initially asked you the question, I did not say, Are you GOOD or BAD at compartmentalizing? I don’t want you to judge yourself if you don’t do it, nor do I want you to praise yourself for doing it. Too often we assign value to our personal characteristics or habits for no reason. Thou shall not compartmentalize! is not a thing. Compartmentalizing is Golden! is also not a thing. You either do it often or you don’t. Simple as that.
And what I have discovered this week through asking other people about their compartmentalizing habits, is that most of the time when someone does compartmentalize, it’s to section-off the bad feelings and emotions they have. Example: After a shitty day at work… Well most of us ATTEMPT to compartmentalize the feelings and emotions associated with that bad day and leave them at work. We try not to bring that energy home with us. I’m not saying we’re successful, I’m saying we try. However, when most of us have a great day at work, we want to bring those positive emotions and feelings home with us. We try to take that good energy with us everywhere.
And thinking about it this way, leads to me to believe that the closer each of us gets to living our best life, the less compartmentalizing of emotions and feelings we’ll do because that energy, those emotions and...