![]() ![]() Being subconsciously afraid to set high expectations in myself and others, I have inadvertently developed a whole network of habits that constantly undermine any attempt to get ahead. In September I wrote about the problem that has been stifling me since childhood: self-sabotage. My inefficiency is so consistent it’s almost comical. The fact that this website even exists is a small miracle. But I am highly conditioned to get very little purposeful work done. I have loads of exciting projects ready to go, and I want to work on them. I never sleep in, I don’t watch TV, I don’t play video games, I don’t get horizontal on couches. This latest mismanaged stretch of free time is typical. I have had so much spare time this last three weeks that I could have written twenty articles and a book of limericks, but I was able to squander nearly all that time, and just get my bare-bones tasks done. When it comes to personal productivity, I blow. There are 14 posts in the archives tagged with the topic “Productivity” but they are only peripherally related. I do write about how to improve your quality of life in all sorts of ways, but I am no authority on getting things done in a timely manner. ![]() You may have noticed a conspicuous absence of posts about personal productivity here on Raptitude. This experiment is the first step towards my huge goal. I’ll save the details of it for an upcoming post, because the whole thing hinges on my ability to overcome one of my lifelong weaknesses. I have no doubts I will complete it, on time, and that it will change my life dramatically. Life has been telegraphing this particular development for a while now, but last week I was smacked with a stroke of clarity about it, and now it is happening.
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