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[serene]

What I should be doing right now: finishing up something for work and moving on to the next thing

What I want to be doing right now: Reading a book in bed

What I'm gonna do right now: Heat up some shu mai and then come pick some really easy task and hope that gets me going on work stuff


sogwife's kitty is sick. If you want to shoot her good wishes, or light a candle for her, or something, I'm sure she'd appreciate it. (Her email address is in her profile.)

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[surelars.livejournal.com]

Picking an easy task sounds good. I sometimes jot down a list of tasks (in the office I have them on a whiteboard), and then ignore priorities and go for the easy ones instead. It feels good. Sometimes I end up doing only the easy ones, but then I will have accomplished something, which is better then nothing at all.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's roughly my own logic, and sometimes doing something small gives me the energy to move onto something bigger. It worked tonight. Something that also works is alternating ten or fifteen minutes doing one task, then switching to something else. In this way, I was able tonight to finish up a contract gig, get my kitchen clean, and do some work on my "day job". I feel good.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we're much the same, there. Once I get started doing something, I often have the inspiration to do a bit more, or get started on that blocked thing that's looming.

I've learned that for me, "not having the energy to start" is usually a matter of ambition, and in particular undecided ambition. So, a good way to get started is to make a decision on the ambition. That can be ambition for the work itself (i.e., "what do I want with this presentation?", "is this a routine job or something to stun the audience?", etc.), and it can be the ambition for how much to achieve right now.

I might not have the energy to take the plunge for that report for the board, but I decide to find the one from last quarter and make a structure template from that. Once that's done, I can maybe persuade myself to go through the sections and add some notes to each of them. And so on. Breaking things down that way helps a lot. And, as you say, it allows mixing with other things.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it in terms of ambition. I'm not sure I know what "undecided ambition" means.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

Prayers and good thoughts on the way.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks!