Blog - /Personal

I am running a bit low on motivation this week. The last three times I've done the laundry, it has sat in my laundry baskets and has not been hung up and filed. Sometimes I only feel motivated to work at 2 in the morning. Why is that?

It was interesting to read recently about this guy who graduated from college in two years with a degree in CS and still managed to have a social life. Disclaimer: he is a proprietary software developer :^) . One of the things that stuck with me was the need to motivate oneself. He would listen to motivational tapes all the time on the way to class. He would do all sorts of stuff like that just to deal with all the people who told him he was nuts to try and graduate in only 2 years.

I am usually against listening to motivational things and the like because I feel it distorts one's sense of reality. But now I wonder: is there room for motivation in my daily schedule? If so, how do I accomplish this sort of thing?

I have heard good things about exercise. Many times I have told myself that I would exercise regularly. It is right up there with losing weight — something thought about once a month at minimum, a resolution made, another scar from the breaking of said resolution, or forgetting it. Eventually one learns not to make resolutions since the breaking of them is so painful.

I would rather not find a quick fix to this problem. I would rather have some sort of module begin forming that could integrate itself with the rest of my life. Once it becomes worthy, it is assigned a sort of priority tier. I then proceed to weight the various tiers and randomly choose items off of them to fill up slots of my time. Much like my Planner Mode setup. Maybe that is why I like Planner so much. Even though I maybe get 10% of the items done each day and eventually have to kill tasks en masse after a month or so.