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There is a thing as too much communication … this was terrific to read.
What Do I Think I’m Doing
I’m doing this. I know. If you fainted, I understand – but I’m still doing it. I’ve completed my prep week, as a matter of fact. I just really need to get moving, so I picked something … literal.
Productivity
Today, I’m thinking about productivity. I am not not trying to squeeze more productivity out of myself; rather, I am looking for ways to calm down my hyper-productivity and do things that make sense and provide some kind of actual benefit to my life.
Timothy Ferriss, who wrote “The 4-Hour Workweek”, knows all about this. He didn’t write the book for slackers; he wrote it for people that need to calm down and stop spazzing through their day – those capable of such focus, clarity and rockstar output in four hours that the other 36 don’t need to fill with sludge and meaningless drivel.
The first step? Ask yourself “Am I being productive or am I just being busy?”
Back Clinic
9 of us attend a back clinic this afternoon. The leader (a physical therapist and yoga master) comes in and asks how many of us – knowing we have issues – have moved furniture this week. 7 of us raise our hands. He nods, knowingly. He then introduces us to his back clinic motto – something he’ll repeat about 417 times through the almost 4-hour session: “You will pay for every dumb day.”
It’s like he knows me.
Here We Are
And so … we start again. Following a hack that successfully and irritatingly disabled the previous blog and made it a spam mecca, I am back at my desk with a cup of coffee and a clean slate. I start over a lot, so you’d think I’d be an expert and just dive right in. The thing is, fresh starts have a weight to them – and I feel the crushing obligation to not screw up. It makes me overly cautious, reflective … and slow. Let’s begin with just a little bit about shining.
It occurs to me that the time is now to shine if I’m ever going to. As Seth Godin so shrewdly recommends in “Tribes”, instead of hoarding vacation days in the hope you’ll eventually weasel a spot of fun, consider making a life you don’t have to escape from. This is what I want. And this is what I don’t have.
Now is the time to do what I’m really good at, be who I want to be, let the number of grudges I’m holding dwindle to zero and allow my spirit to expand ten times its Grinchly size. I’m game … and I’m skeptical. But now you’re here with me and perhaps together we’ll sort it all out … and damn the naysayers.