I read every one of these articles, and some help a little, but most don't. I know it's me, not them.
In my case I have a "fear of getting started". Once started I can usually keep going, which I guess is opposite of many (although I do have my share of unfinished projects too), but my mind starts to reel at "all the shit I need to do" that getting started on any of them is really hard.
I've started trying to schedule really small things, almost meaningless things, so I get them done via the notification that I need to start on <X>. That's helped. I need to get better at doing the "one foot in front of the other" mentality, I guess.
Pointers, or anything that's helped any of you very welcome.
There used to be a time tracking app that I liked that I've never seen before nor since that helped me out. It worked like so:
- every 10 (configurable) minutes it popped up a dialog, "what did you do for the last 10 minutes?" with a list of common or recent tasks. You picked one or wrote a new one. At the end of $DAY it gave you your tallies.
The constant reminders gave me incentive to either keep doing what I was doing (if it was good), or stop fucking around and do something meaningful.
Sadly the dev bailed on it and wouldn't release the source. I may write my own, "one of these days", but I'm not sure how to get started... <sigh>
In my case I have a "fear of getting started". Once started I can usually keep going, which I guess is opposite of many (although I do have my share of unfinished projects too), but my mind starts to reel at "all the shit I need to do" that getting started on any of them is really hard.
I've started trying to schedule really small things, almost meaningless things, so I get them done via the notification that I need to start on <X>. That's helped. I need to get better at doing the "one foot in front of the other" mentality, I guess.
Pointers, or anything that's helped any of you very welcome.
There used to be a time tracking app that I liked that I've never seen before nor since that helped me out. It worked like so:
- every 10 (configurable) minutes it popped up a dialog, "what did you do for the last 10 minutes?" with a list of common or recent tasks. You picked one or wrote a new one. At the end of $DAY it gave you your tallies.
The constant reminders gave me incentive to either keep doing what I was doing (if it was good), or stop fucking around and do something meaningful.
Sadly the dev bailed on it and wouldn't release the source. I may write my own, "one of these days", but I'm not sure how to get started... <sigh>