This past week I haven’t focused much on classes, missed quite a lot. It’s only the second week, probably not the best start. But where I’ve been lacking in focus for school work; I’ve invested a lot of time into making friends, and developing this blog, another one (that’s in the works) and a podcast that’s now live.
With that said I first realised the importance of productivity during I think my second or third chai sesh with Ali. We were just talking about heartbreak or some shit, and we both legit said fuck it let’s do something smart with this time, so we began appreciating productivity.
I, for the longest time looked at productivity as an escape; an escape from the mundane monotony of life, an escape from feeling the way i kept feeling, to be very honest, an escape from sadness. It look a longtime for me to realise that the only way I could move past all my current dilemmas was to create a character and embody him.
By no means necessary am I advocating artificiality, but rather my approach is to embody my future self. People have 5 year plans, goals they think they’ll have achieved in 5 years. Don’t know how they’ll make that money, buy that car, get that body, have that dream job or relationship. Just because it’s in the 5 year plan doesn’t mean you don’t start now.
My take is if you want to be someone, say for example in my plan I keep the goal to make a mil, now either I can live my life for the next 4 years and freak out about not achieving it, or I can begin to work in any small way I can right now, adopt habits of my future post mil self, habits like saving, insane work ethics, or whatever for that matter and through the compounding effect of time, in 5 years I’ll actually not only have achieved my goal but odds are it’ll be done sooner.
So I think it’s important to work, but I suffer from the same problem as many others: procrastination. Now that one is a motherfucker. Haven’t figured that one out yet… let’s see how that one unfolds.
A Sane Undertaking 