Hello beautiful people!
Let’s close some open tickets.
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So, let me tell you how awesome the internet is. Here’s a clip cut down to almost exactly everything I was telling you about in that episode of The Big Bang Theory — The Closure Alternative.
Enjoy!
Okay, so you get the point (and OMG how cute is this show? I smiled the whole time I watched this — I’m definitely their buyer). Open tickets cause stress for most of us. Even for the things we think we’re not walking around attending to, dealing with, or having to address, once they’re taking up brain space because they’re agenda items in our lives at some level they ARE a form of clutter. And after a while, that space they’re taking up begins to crowd out our productivity, our creativity, and even our satisfaction with those things we are actually spending time working on over time!
Today’s work: Identify the open tickets in your life. Whether it’s remembering a conversation you had with someone in which you were right and they were wrong (so you keep replaying it because if you just replay it often enough, eventually THEY somehow will get that you were right, right?) or placing more on your to-do list than you know is humanly possible to get to in any given day, start by identifying open tickets. What can you schedule for the future? Schedule it! What can you reframe? Reframe it! Is it time for a long-overdo reboot in which all the open tickets are knocked clear off the line and then reset purposefully and strategically?
Next-tier you has a much better relationship with tickets that were first written up at lower tiers. Those tickets may not even be necessary anymore. They could be hanging around out of habit. This is a decluttering day. What can you let go of? And how free do you feel in doing so? Extra credit: What will you do with that new space you’ve just allocated? (This is a trick question! Don’t rush to reclutter with new tickets. Do some self-care. You’ve earned it.)
’til tomorrow… stay ninja!
