\n\t\t\tSometimes it’s not a bad idea to “do the easy things first” – because sometimes once you’re “on a roll”, the hard things don’t seem so hard.\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\tTypical thoughts I might have in this state include “I ought to be more productive”, and “Look at these important things that aren’t even moving at all – aargh!”\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tThen by way of reaction, I might get a slightly exasperated urge to “go for the main things right now and stop faffing about”. Which, if I were to heed it, would launch me straight into the hardest tasks.\n\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\tBut in fact, it seems from experience that this is usually unrealistic for me, and trying to do it only leads to more stuckness. If I’m feeling stuck and low-energy and maybe a bit hopeless, what I’ve found usually works in fact is to start with minor pottering about and build momentum<\/strong>.\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSo e.g. rather than telling myself “Must… do… accounts…”, it might work best to tidy a small area of a room, and then think “Yay! what next?”\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tA while back, I was talking about this on a thinking session<\/a>, and I came up with a new metaphor: it’s like gears in a car<\/strong>.\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSuppose you’re driving a car, and you try to set off in 5th gear. What’s going to happen? Probably the car will jolt, and make a noise it’s not supposed to make, and stall. And probably what won’t<\/em> happen is the car goes off zooming really fast.\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tIt’s not designed to work like that; you’re supposed to start in first gear (or maybe second, depending on vehicle and circumstances), and work up.\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tAnd I thought: I must remember this. It’s pointless trying to make myself get all majorly active straight from a mope, when it’s so much more workable and natural to build momentum gradually. I know<\/em> this, but it seems to be one of those things which is easy to forget :-)\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tI have more to say about this topic! But that will do as a start.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes it’s not a bad idea to “do the easy things first” – because sometimes once you’re “on a roll”, the hard things don’t seem so hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors","category-momentum","category-what-am-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Gears in a car<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Remembering<\/h2>\n