Thoughts 3 #Quarters&Focus
If you read the last post, this next paragraph will be familiar to you:
{I’m doing this 3 months, 3 months thing which I’ll explain. Because I have a million and one interests, and my brain is always jumping from thought to thought, project to project, i’m imposing a ban on myself to only focus on 1 main project for a max period of 3 months and then revisit other projects or consider whether I want to continue the existing project for an additional period of time.”
I think I got this idea from Spotify’s Founder after listening to his appearance on a Freakonomics podcast episode.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/spotify/
In this episode Daniel Ek (Spotify’s founder) talks about operating life in a series of 5-year commitments and then reviewing the commitment once that time is up. I don’t have that long lol. I’m too worried about wasting my potential (ironically I waste a lot of time), imminent death (i’ll go into that later - losing +5 people, 4-5 of whom were gone in the space of 4 years does that to you), lack of patience, and a desire to want to do everything (well maybe not everything…most things).
So, I chose to break it down into quarterly commitments. Every 3 months, I want to either focus on a new project/topic, or continue an existing one if I have not made enough strides in it. In theory, I should put on pause other “little projects” like learning how to draw again (I used to be so sick) and learning how to speak French well (urgh.) so I can focus fully on one thing, but I’m still figuring out how to put things down.
Which just reminded me, i’m a hoarder. I’ll probably write about that at some point and the psychology behind hoarding items, clinging on to the past, not wanting to let things go, and overall letting the future slip past. But not in this post.
Thanks, bye.