I’ve found that making an effort to minimize Maintenance Costs has greatly improved my ability to deal with inertia. For me, it’s easy to ignore something once; it’s much harder to ignore it when I’m aware that I’ll be suffering a small cost for the duration of the delay.
One thing that has helped a lot in some ways is carrying a journal: writing something down tends to “close the loop” for me. The consequence is that unless I make a habit of checking my journal, it actually makes me slightly more forgetful, since I no longer have that “open loop” reminder.
I’ve found that making an effort to minimize Maintenance Costs has greatly improved my ability to deal with inertia. For me, it’s easy to ignore something once; it’s much harder to ignore it when I’m aware that I’ll be suffering a small cost for the duration of the delay.
One thing that has helped a lot in some ways is carrying a journal: writing something down tends to “close the loop” for me. The consequence is that unless I make a habit of checking my journal, it actually makes me slightly more forgetful, since I no longer have that “open loop” reminder.