I took some lessons from professional cooking that have served very well in life: "Mise en place" - have everything you need close by and ready to use before you begin. The act of preparing means...
I took some lessons from professional cooking that have served very well in life:
"Mise en place" - have everything you need close by and ready to use before you begin. The act of preparing means you know how to do the job before you start, and there's no easy excuse for leaving it incomplete.
"Clean as you go" - integrating the tiny acts of removing disorder, putting trash where it belongs, and constantly grooming your process helps keep your head in a place of comfortable control, rather than overwhelming panic and incipient despair. Not to mention that cleanup when you're done is not just manageable, but already managed.
"Begin as you want to end" - If you start out sloppily, with no particular idea of the goal or the techniques and knowledge for getting there, you'll get sloppy results. If you pile up demands with no understanding of the necessary time and resources to achieve them, you're likely to achieve less than nothing, i.e. wastage.
I'll note that this says nothing at all about procrastination - there's plenty of opportunities to not begin tasks at all.
While the post is ostensibly entertaining, the fact that it might hit uncomfortably close to home means that it has enormous discussion value (as difficult as it might be to get started and be...
While the post is ostensibly entertaining, the fact that it might hit uncomfortably close to home means that it has enormous discussion value (as difficult as it might be to get started and be articulate). I'm hoping that this at least provides interesting fodder to reflect on why that might be the case, and someone with a deeper understanding into the phenomenon might take a stab at opening up a discussion.
Can confirm, hits very close to home. I've got a to-do list a mile long. Turns out, when you don't develop good habits to efficiently keep your home in order before having a kid, you just kinda...
Can confirm, hits very close to home. I've got a to-do list a mile long.
Turns out, when you don't develop good habits to efficiently keep your home in order before having a kid, you just kinda got to accept that things are gonna be a disaster more often than not for a few years.
I've been doing "spring cleaning" of my apartment since April. I'm single and live alone, and all my local friends are taking equal or greater Covid precautions as I am. As a result I haven't had...
I've been doing "spring cleaning" of my apartment since April.
I'm single and live alone, and all my local friends are taking equal or greater Covid precautions as I am. As a result I haven't had anyone visit in months. I've had a few people over for happy hour on my apartment building's rooftop deck, but that was it.
You know when you're having guests over, and you do a quick walkthrough / tidying up of your house to make sure it's presentable?
Imagine the opposite of that. That's my apartment.
I start my new job tomorrow and I'm starting to put together that maybe it's not the job that was making me unproductive, maybe it was just my nature to use as much time as I can for non specific...
I start my new job tomorrow and I'm starting to put together that maybe it's not the job that was making me unproductive, maybe it was just my nature to use as much time as I can for non specific tinkering/writings/browsings. Why do I need to define happiness as a constructive activity that has some form of value to others in a tangible good or a recollection, rather than an activity that makes the happy chemical in my brain head.
Very realistic. For me it works better to just do little tasks when I think about them without planning too much, it's like when you cook, cleaning along makes things easier. That said my place is...
Very realistic. For me it works better to just do little tasks when I think about them without planning too much, it's like when you cook, cleaning along makes things easier. That said my place is a mess.
I took some lessons from professional cooking that have served very well in life:
"Mise en place" - have everything you need close by and ready to use before you begin. The act of preparing means you know how to do the job before you start, and there's no easy excuse for leaving it incomplete.
"Clean as you go" - integrating the tiny acts of removing disorder, putting trash where it belongs, and constantly grooming your process helps keep your head in a place of comfortable control, rather than overwhelming panic and incipient despair. Not to mention that cleanup when you're done is not just manageable, but already managed.
"Begin as you want to end" - If you start out sloppily, with no particular idea of the goal or the techniques and knowledge for getting there, you'll get sloppy results. If you pile up demands with no understanding of the necessary time and resources to achieve them, you're likely to achieve less than nothing, i.e. wastage.
I'll note that this says nothing at all about procrastination - there's plenty of opportunities to not begin tasks at all.
It's like another joke, "All of my plans depend on me having discipline I've never had before tomorrow morning."
While the post is ostensibly entertaining, the fact that it might hit uncomfortably close to home means that it has enormous discussion value (as difficult as it might be to get started and be articulate). I'm hoping that this at least provides interesting fodder to reflect on why that might be the case, and someone with a deeper understanding into the phenomenon might take a stab at opening up a discussion.
Can confirm, hits very close to home. I've got a to-do list a mile long.
Turns out, when you don't develop good habits to efficiently keep your home in order before having a kid, you just kinda got to accept that things are gonna be a disaster more often than not for a few years.
I've been doing "spring cleaning" of my apartment since April.
I'm single and live alone, and all my local friends are taking equal or greater Covid precautions as I am. As a result I haven't had anyone visit in months. I've had a few people over for happy hour on my apartment building's rooftop deck, but that was it.
You know when you're having guests over, and you do a quick walkthrough / tidying up of your house to make sure it's presentable?
Imagine the opposite of that. That's my apartment.
I start my new job tomorrow and I'm starting to put together that maybe it's not the job that was making me unproductive, maybe it was just my nature to use as much time as I can for non specific tinkering/writings/browsings. Why do I need to define happiness as a constructive activity that has some form of value to others in a tangible good or a recollection, rather than an activity that makes the happy chemical in my brain head.
Very realistic. For me it works better to just do little tasks when I think about them without planning too much, it's like when you cook, cleaning along makes things easier. That said my place is a mess.