Why I don't attend more Taekwondo trainings per week and what it has to do with my creative writing. Also, why is may be good to half-ass your goals at first.
I love this! I'm historically terrible at "do x every day challenges". I'm more of a binger - ie I'll spend all day crafting or writing, or whatever and then not do it for a week. I've been trying to lean into that more vs. changing my own nature and trying to do a little bit each day. Of course that doesn't work well with habits like exercise so I still work on those :D
Really enjoyed reading your thoughts - this post really resonated with me.
For me, what tends to work is giving myself a regular evening time to "do something productive" and then rotating what that is. So on Mondays I might go for a training, on Tuesday I might write, on Wednesday I'll study Japanese... Important - not all days of the week are accounted for like that. I absolutely require days to do the groceries, clean, or... just do nothing.
Great post. It touches on a topic quite dear to me, a concept that I've heard already before: we are mortal humans with finite time and genuinely can't do it all. Truly, the ultimate productivity and time management hack is to decide what you want to be "bad" at - or at least, what you DON'T want to excel in.
It's a liberating thought, for me at least.
That said, I still think there's space for trackers in my life 😆 BUT not the usual kind. As of right now, I use trackers not as a motivational tool (I 100% agree that they do more damage than good that way) but more like a neutral collection of data. After reading this post, I've been mulling over other possibilities... Anyway, they are not for everyone, I wholeheartedly agree.
I love this! I'm historically terrible at "do x every day challenges". I'm more of a binger - ie I'll spend all day crafting or writing, or whatever and then not do it for a week. I've been trying to lean into that more vs. changing my own nature and trying to do a little bit each day. Of course that doesn't work well with habits like exercise so I still work on those :D
Really enjoyed reading your thoughts - this post really resonated with me.
For me, what tends to work is giving myself a regular evening time to "do something productive" and then rotating what that is. So on Mondays I might go for a training, on Tuesday I might write, on Wednesday I'll study Japanese... Important - not all days of the week are accounted for like that. I absolutely require days to do the groceries, clean, or... just do nothing.
Oh, I love this and want to try it for the new year!!
Oh, let me know how it goes!
But do remember - leave some days for "doing nothing", it's the bit that makes you want to really do something during the days of "doing something" :D
Great post. It touches on a topic quite dear to me, a concept that I've heard already before: we are mortal humans with finite time and genuinely can't do it all. Truly, the ultimate productivity and time management hack is to decide what you want to be "bad" at - or at least, what you DON'T want to excel in.
It's a liberating thought, for me at least.
That said, I still think there's space for trackers in my life 😆 BUT not the usual kind. As of right now, I use trackers not as a motivational tool (I 100% agree that they do more damage than good that way) but more like a neutral collection of data. After reading this post, I've been mulling over other possibilities... Anyway, they are not for everyone, I wholeheartedly agree.
I love how much this post made me think!