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🕑 Added 2024-07-04 17:38:54 +0000 UTCA little mental flow.
How nice it would be if a person did not need sleep.
In recent months, I have been thinking about this very often, because there is too much to do, several ongoing tasks at the same time. I want to do them all and the thought that I can’t be busy with work all the time is depressing, because fatigue overtakes me. I need to rest, this is important for quality work, but the number of tasks is growing and I’m trying not to get excited and fall apart in an attempt to do everything at once.
Things keep piling up, there is always something very high priority and at the same time interesting. Sometimes it’s scary that everything is interesting. I start doing an interesting task, then another and another. At the beginning there is excitement, a peak of interest, but some time later it goes away and the obligation to complete what has started remains. Slowly and little by little I manage to get tasks completed, but sometimes it becomes very difficult to do.
I’m little by little learning how to deal with such situations and control them so that at some point I simply don’t burn out. I am glad that many things light a fire in me or I do it on purpose and in the end it turns out that I only do them and do not do anything that is not interesting to me.
Considering all these thoughts, I need to learn to control and track my resource, because I am doing it very poorly at the moment.
But I think everything will be fine, because it can’t be otherwise :)
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Marrion 3d
Thanks for the book recommendations, I saved it :) You are right about sleep, I do not neglect it, because I understand its importance and necessity. This is as important as rest, because in order to work well, you need to rest well. That mental flow of mine arose due to the abundance of tasks that I am trying to cope with. And even if I wanted to neglect sleep and rest, I wouldn’t succeed, because recently I couldn’t do it when I tried :D
Wim D.
A very recognisable feeling. Perhaps the book 'Refuse to choose' by Barbara Sher could be of interest. In it she gives tips and methods to tackle what she calls a 'scanner' type of personality. Another related source might be 'Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less' by Greg McKeown. Based on the title it might sound like the exact opposite advice that Barbara Sher gives, but I actually find them complementary, both books give good tips, tools and a way to streamline your thinking about this kind of topic. I'm sure you already knew this, but while it seems counterintuitive, sleep actually is not a waste of time but what enables your mind to be even more effective and durable when awake. Lots of 'archiving' and processing goes on in the brain while you sleep, helping you to remember things and to empty your mental backpack of the day. Not that I'm not strapped for time constantly myself, but actively looking at sleep as a useful part of your daily routine, rather than something to try to avoid/postpone, helps making sure I get enough sleep rather than feel frustrated by having to end my day sometimes.
