This reinforces a lot of what I've been working on lately (making it easy to do the things I want to do, and making it hard to do the things I don't want to do).
Great practical advice! I've made great use of breaking larger activities into smaller chunks and doing several of the smaller chunks in a row. I.e. instead of editing for two hours, I edit half an hour, write half an hour, and read one book for half an hour, and a different book for half an hour.
I still spend the two hours, but it's divided into more various activities and I feel more energized, focused, and time flies. Very effective particularly with reading, as I find my concentration begins to wane if I read the same book for too long at a time, but switching to a different book fixes the issue.
So it's not reading per se that's tiring me, it's being in the same mental mode and engaging the same topic for too long.
Great article, it dovetails with a lot I've been reading about chronic procrastination lately as well.
Great article.
This reinforces a lot of what I've been working on lately (making it easy to do the things I want to do, and making it hard to do the things I don't want to do).
Great practical advice! I've made great use of breaking larger activities into smaller chunks and doing several of the smaller chunks in a row. I.e. instead of editing for two hours, I edit half an hour, write half an hour, and read one book for half an hour, and a different book for half an hour.
I still spend the two hours, but it's divided into more various activities and I feel more energized, focused, and time flies. Very effective particularly with reading, as I find my concentration begins to wane if I read the same book for too long at a time, but switching to a different book fixes the issue.
So it's not reading per se that's tiring me, it's being in the same mental mode and engaging the same topic for too long.