Build Something You Need
Escape from the deep pits of unproductiveness
We’ve all been there… fighting with monotony, working on something we don’t believe in, something we “have” to do without any way of eschewing it. Under these circumstances you reach at a point where your productivity is plunging deep like those high cliff divers and inevitably you start to think that something’s wrong with you, that you’ve lost your “touch” and you’re not that productive “beast” you used to be back in the days.
Instead of complaining about your dreadful state and piling up the tasks on your to-do list because you just don’t have the will to cross them out, there’s actually something practical you can do. And that’s to go build something you need, that you want to use for yourself or something your close ones need. Building something you need will involve you emotionally and spark back up your creativity. Now, looking for inspiration in other places and trying to induce yourself in a creative state won’t do any harm but these are just passive methods, instead, doing something more active, more hands-on, could have the power to get those creative juices flowing.
This “something” you could build doesn’t need to be a massive undertaking that you first need to plan, take lots of decisions or dissect too much, no, just find something you could get at straight away without caring too much on how it will come up as long as it will fulfil its purpose. Just put something together!
OK, you might say, but how this new little fun project of mine will help me get trough with the boring stuff I still have to take care of? Well, what you’ll actually notice as a side effect of building that thing you need is that your self-esteem starts to rise back up and you’ll soon realise that you’re actually still pretty good at what you do. More than that it will prompt you to get things done more quickly so that you can return to your side project.
In a nutshell, you’ll trick yourself into getting stuff done with the promise of getting back to building your thing so that you can get it finished and actually use it.
It might sound strange to fight boring work by doing more work, but as long as this is by YOU for YOU it won’t actually feel like work, but more like play. And who doesn’t like to play?
