I Am Not Jumping From One Task to Another. I Am Following My Fun Detecting Antenna.

The clue is to be aware. All. The. Time. And if I stop being aware, I become aware of that too and return to playing the Awareness Booster Game.

Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life

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I rediscovered the wisdom of the following quote today:

“Even small signs that you are resisting the small step — that you are having to push yourself to do the step — are an indication that the step is too big[.]”

— Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

And I am sure I will be rediscovering it in the future (I bet, both near and far) when I become awake after forcing myself to do something and stick with one task for a while.

I could label the resistance procrastination or look closer and become aware of the dynamics behind it. Am I tired or thirsty, did my interest in the task wave for a minute? Did I have a brief idea of changing something and then reject it as not valid, etc., etc?

I wrote this article in bits and pieces, coming to it in short breaks from my…

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Victoria Ichizli-Bartels
Gameful Life

Life gamer, life coach, author, engineer; originator of Self-Gamification — an art of turning life into fun games → optimistwriter.com