{"id":3066,"date":"2023-07-26T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:02:31","slug":"the-youre-not-doing-enough-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/the-youre-not-doing-enough-club\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Feel Like You&#8217;re Not Doing Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No matter how much I accomplish in any given day, I&nbsp;notice that I often carry around a vague sense of<strong> Not Doing Enough<\/strong>. Can you relate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might have had&nbsp;a pretty good work day, but I didn&rsquo;t exercise as much as I&rsquo;d hoped. Or I spent some good quality time with&nbsp;my family, but fifty unanswered emails are waiting in my&nbsp;InBox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a baby, a tablet, and a saucepan, trying to do too much.\" class=\"wp-image-7300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/not-doing-enough.jpg\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m a sucker for articles and books about increasing productivity. A headline like &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativelive.com\/blog\/11-time-saving-apps-change-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 Timesaving Apps That Will Change Your Life!<\/a>&rdquo; will get me to click every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&rsquo;m a Type A but also prone to distraction, I&rsquo;ve tried keeping&nbsp;a little chart to track simple daily tasks like exercising, meditating, writing, flossing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/a-readers-decluttering-dilemma\/\">decluttering<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a rare, rare day when I circle every task on the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I write <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elizacross.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cookbooks<\/a>, and the only way I can meet my deadlines is&nbsp;to break&nbsp;up the work in daily chunks. So I&rsquo;m constantly setting word counts&nbsp;for writing and editing. If I miss my goals, I pay the price with increased pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many of you, I also work full time. I&rsquo;m a parent and a pet owner, with&nbsp;a house and yard to maintain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Martha Complex<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Martha Stewart&nbsp;wrote on her blog that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarthablog.com\/2017\/03\/bathing-my-dogs-and-cats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her dogs are brushed every day<\/a>. <em>Every day!<\/em> I thought, and a wave of guilt swept over me. <em>I should be brushing our dog every day, not weekly&hellip; poor guy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When my son was in grade school I attended the parent-teacher conference, and his English&nbsp;teacher said, &ldquo;His reading comprehension needs work, but we&rsquo;re&nbsp;grateful that&nbsp;you&rsquo;ve been doing the nightly 15 minutes of parent-student reading together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know my face betrayed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what.jpg\" alt=\"Dog with tilted head | Happy Simple Living blog\" class=\"wp-image-3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what-400x325.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Say-what.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&ldquo;Say what?&rdquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were seven months into the school year&nbsp;and I somehow missed the directive that my son&nbsp;and I are&nbsp;supposed to be reading together for 15 minutes each night. <em>No wonder his comprehension needed work!&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&rsquo;ve always suspected that other&nbsp;people&nbsp;had the productivity thing down. But I might be&nbsp;wrong. In talking with a number of my friends, I have yet to hear from&nbsp;anyone who does not feel, some days or many days, as if&nbsp;the things they accomplished are somehow lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;At the end of the day, I always feel like I let someone down,&rdquo; one busy mom of four told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about you?&nbsp;Are you a member of the You&rsquo;re Not Doing Enough Club?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Searching for Answers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I prayed and meditated about this question, what floated into my mind was&nbsp;the image&nbsp;of Mary choosing to&nbsp;sit on the floor and visit with&nbsp;Jesus. Remember that story? Meanwhile, Mary&rsquo;s sister (named Martha, ironically) bustled around cleaning, cooking, and feeling&nbsp;overwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to be more like Mary. I really do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, I can sort of relate to Martha in this story. As a food lover, I can imagine wanting to prepare&nbsp;a good meal for the great teacher. I&rsquo;d be in the kitchen making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/make-your-own-tender-perfectly-puffed-pita-breads-for-pennies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fresh pita breads<\/a> and pouring wine and wanting&nbsp;everything be just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus died a short time later, and then the meal really didn&rsquo;t matter. I can imagine poor Martha feeling such regret that she was stressed out and distracted during that&nbsp;final evening with her friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it possible that the vaguely unsettling cloud of Not Doing Enough is creating daily unhappiness, and that the thing we might need to do most is&hellip; to do less?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be present?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To let some things go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To figure out what is truly important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It is Finished<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been a member of the You&rsquo;re Not Doing Enough Club, I have news for you: We&rsquo;re disbanding the club. The gig is up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next time we feel those clouds gathering, we&rsquo;re fighting back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&rsquo;re going to pause, and think about what really matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&rsquo;ll give ourselves permission to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/how-to-embrace-slow-living\/\">slow down<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&rsquo;ll allow ourselves time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/the-sweet-act-of-doing-nothing\/\">do nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You <em>are<\/em> doing enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a deep breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be easy on yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&nbsp;are <em>amazing.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Grateful thanks to&nbsp;Henric Silversn&ouml; for the use of his wonderful dog image.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Have you made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/do-you-have-a-happy-file\/\">Happy File<\/a> yet? Gathering words of encouragement can be a powerful cure for feeling like you&rsquo;re not doing enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.P.S. You might enjoy keeping a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/whats-on-your-victory-list\/\">Victory List<\/a>, too. And do you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/look-forward-list\/\">something good to look forward to<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"When You Feel Like You&#8217;re Not Doing Enough\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happysimpleliving.com\/the-youre-not-doing-enough-club\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about When You Feel Like You&#8217;re Not Doing Enough\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"1","last_modified_date":"2023-07-26T15:02:31","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-simple-living","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When You Feel Like You&#039;re Not Doing Enough - Happy Simple Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever feel like you&#039;re not doing enough? 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