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No me da la vida - The day does not have enough hours

I can find overwhelming to look at all the things I have to do -and I keep on adding more and more!

So what I do is to break the tasks into smaller ones that I can fit anywhere. I have some different tasks ready in case on a particular moment I don't feel like doing a particular thing. So if I don't feel like drawing, I could do some hashtag research, for example. Or I can prepare posts for Instagram instead of looking for new products.

I am a big fan of 'To do' lists even though sometimes those lists stress me a bit more because I can see I am not ticking things off. However they work for me, specially if they are somewhere visible.

That's why, when I decided to do this huge renewal, I had to tell myself it will take time and that's ok. I am breaking the enormous task into little and achievable ones and I am not really setting a deadline since I am more focused on having a really solid foundation this time, instead of working over things I did in the past.

This would be my biggest challenge for 2019! Hope you have a nice evening and 2019 comes with more good than bad moments for you and your loved ones -and maybe bring some common sense to the UK government....


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