It was getting absurd.
For the last three days in a row, I’d been turning off the lamp on my bedside annoyed that I didn’t get done what I said I would.
To write that many words.
I was annoyed with myself for wasting time. Again.
Annoyed with myself for not even remembering half the day and what I did with it.
I’d had better days than this, but for some reason I was repeatedly slipping, and beyond just being a bit lazy, I couldn’t think why.
Today was different. I tried something new, and things worked. At least as far as getting a good amount of work done.
I’d figured out a couple of useful things.
The first was recognizing that there are two kinds of activities:
1. ‘Urgent’
2. Important
The second thing I learned was understanding the science of willpower — I’ll get to that in a second.
Urgent or emotionally-driven activities, on the whole, give you results in the short run.
Whether it’s responding to urgent emails, texting, gaming, making phone calls, even doing some client work, all the way to eating sweets and smoking, these are all…
