Executive dysfunction is a real bitch.
A work mentor once told me: 80% of the deliverable is the 20% of the work you don’t fucking want to do. It’s served me well.
Review that data.
Conduct that literature review.
I’m honestly not sure what to do with this information. Just do the 80% I want to do and hand it in, close enough?
No, it’s saying do the shitty part of the work you’re putting off. You can write a great intro, make sure the report is all formated to the nines, but the crux of it is the results and discussion. That’s where you give them what you signed up to do when you took on the work.
Seeing an account you follow posted on a different social media platform is a weird experience. Like seeing somebody you vaguely know from work at the grocery store.
Unironically, the Shia “Do it!” meme is a mantra I follow. Like if I need to do something at work that I hate doing, I just tell myself that it’s inevitable and there’s no avoiding it, so might as well stop putting it off and just do it. It had worked for me so far.
I always think of it as doing your future self a favour. And when the time comes, future me always thanks past me for doing it.
My problem is it is never that simple. It’s never “do this thing or don’t,” it’s “you have to do these five things. This one might be really difficult or time consuming. The other four your can just do right now.” So the difficult one keeps getting pushed out because other things, that are also necessary, are easier. The list never completely empties, so it’s like Hunter’s Stew, with the difficult thing just collecting at the bottom until it becomes an emergency.
And then I find out it’s a relatively simple thing, I just had to do it.
At work everytime there’s a boring task, it always takes me the week to complete it because we keep discovering new issues and whatnot. When there’s an actually interesting task or one that I think will take the week, it actually takes an afternoon. It’s the best feeling but also the worst feeling because I hate having to go in the backlog, especially at the end of the sprint
Obsessing about what ifs to the point that it blocks your brain from actual problem solving is among the worst ways to handle stress.
Think critically and discern baseless fears from actual concerns.
