How much effort does this thing need?

Dear Self,

It is tempting when I am doing things that are less fun to do them in a less fun way.

I find myself ‘grinding’ my way through an activity purely because I resent doing the activity.

This happened to me yesterday afternoon as I was preparing for a workshop. I thought I had everything organised and it turned out that I didn’t, so I had a stressful hour getting things sorted.

I made everything in that hour harder than it needed to be because I was disappointed with how I had ended up in that situation.

Of course I had spent the morning talking to a friend about the idea of matching any given task with the amount of effort that task needs. Actually this was great because it meant I could see straight away what I was doing to myself and interrupt the pattern immediately.

I find my ability to understand an idea is not matched by my ability to implement it in every situation!

Luke

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