For the past month or so I’ve been in a Doing spiral. This has been great for my productivity, but as multiple important deadlines coincided at the same time this week, I’ve realized (thank you everyone I’ve talked about this with for helping me realize) that I’ve left little time for simply being in my life.
One might say I’ve left very little to no slack in my life, with the negative consequences that can cause. Working 10 hours a day at my day job before coming home to work for 2-4 hours a night on studying for an exam, writing, Rationalist organizing, other projects, etc. plus working a bunch on weekends is very tiring, even though there are parts of it I’ve loved and have enjoyed being so productive. Other than audio media I consumed while completing physical or repetitive tasks, I consumed almost no media the last two weeks in particular, I was working so much.
New commitment: take some time back for myself to simply be each day & week. That may sound vaguely defined to you, but that sentence functions equivalently to a list of SMART goal activities to me, although I’ll make sure it doesn’t operate as such, hehe. Being is the focus of this commitment.
Shortform #114 Huh, Human Being not Human Doing
For the past month or so I’ve been in a Doing spiral. This has been great for my productivity, but as multiple important deadlines coincided at the same time this week, I’ve realized (thank you everyone I’ve talked about this with for helping me realize) that I’ve left little time for simply being in my life.
One might say I’ve left very little to no slack in my life, with the negative consequences that can cause. Working 10 hours a day at my day job before coming home to work for 2-4 hours a night on studying for an exam, writing, Rationalist organizing, other projects, etc. plus working a bunch on weekends is very tiring, even though there are parts of it I’ve loved and have enjoyed being so productive. Other than audio media I consumed while completing physical or repetitive tasks, I consumed almost no media the last two weeks in particular, I was working so much.
New commitment: take some time back for myself to simply be each day & week. That may sound vaguely defined to you, but that sentence functions equivalently to a list of SMART goal activities to me, although I’ll make sure it doesn’t operate as such, hehe. Being is the focus of this commitment.