🍏 "Ik at door de zure appel". And I'm SO freaking proud 🌈

Renee Kers

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22d (edited) • 🏆 Wins

Today I had an appointment I did NOT want to go to.

In my head? I had already:

❌ Rescheduled it

❌ Cancelled it

❌ Pushed it to "next week"

…about 100 times before I even got out of bed 🛌

My avoidance was so loud that instead of planning to go, I:

🧹 Tidied the entire living room

🧹 Cleaned upstairs

🧹 Found corners of the house I forgot existed

(ADHD productivity = doing literally anything except the thing 🌀)

And then somewhere in all that scrubbing, a tiny voice landed 💡

"JUST TAKE THE PAIN UP FRONT."

To be honest it was more like

@Jim Ebbelaar

was enthusiastically screaming in my head, suggesting that I could also just go and take the pain now... instead of avoiding... and keep living in that state for another week....

In Dutch we have this perfect phrase: 🍏 door de zure appel heen bijten. Bite the sour apple. Just go through it. Don't drag it out for another week of dread. Take it now and be free tonight ✨

So I got in the car 🚗

I drove there 🛣️

I sat through it 🪑

I endured the pain 😝

I came home 🏡

It was hard. AND. It's done 🎯

No rescheduling. No "tomorrow Renée." No 100 more mental cancellations.

Just… done 💐

If there's something you've been avoiding all week, this is your sign 🌟

Take the zure appel today 🍏

Future-you will be SO grateful tonight 💖

What's YOUR zure appel this week? Drop it in the comments and let's eat them together 👇🌈