From my own experience, I know that working a lot and being productive you can easily be in a robotic mode where you function like a factory, you standing in an assembly line.
Don’t forget you’re not a robot (yet! haha), let your human-ness shine through despite all the duties, responsibilities and goals you have. Preserve you approachability as a human and sustain your human-ness.
If you understand that you are like your favorite sportsman but the pitch you are playing on is the market and the connections you make, you will start treating yourself better (a good sportsman eats well) and work harder (a good sportsman practices with intention and hard because he always wants to win).
Your training lasts 15 to 18 hours a day and your match day has no fixed schedule, like every Saturday or so. You play your match when you talk to foreigners, bond with people and show up. You practice when you create, document and make behind the scenes when nobody is watching you — except yourself. The hardest judge is always you when you are on your own because you define your measure and level of quality. Nobody else.
They say to start is the hardest part. I doubt it because starting is actually easy when you know where to begin. What is probably holding you back is the paralysis of choice or you are thinking too much which is why you should write.
Or, as Cory McCabe says:
We put off tasks that:
a) require mental focus,
b) are too vague in what is required.
As a result, you „often fill your time with doing other things“.
Another hurdle I can think of is that you are naturally lazy, lean-back and chilled out but not a doer. Trust me, I can relate — I had those years. Read More