[Post-dated] Day 531 - Busy ≠ success - https://golifelog.com/posts/busy-success-1655259007271
How I know I’m not successful (yet):
I’m waaay too busy.
6 months ago I wrote that I’m not successful because I’m too busy.
6 months later, nothing’s changed…yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s because I do enjoy working.
Work is fun.
Work is satisfying.
Work gives me purpose.
Work feeds me and the family.
Work drives me to grow as a person.
But yet there’s always this conflict, this unhealthy loop:
I enjoy work. I work too much. I feel burned out. I want to be less busy. I work less. I feel rested. I get bored. I start work again. I enjoy work. I work too much…
Rinse and repeat. I’ve been looping through this for maybe the past 10 years perhaps? Ever since I went self-employed.
My relationship with work is not the healthiest, but it had worked for me so far. Maybe that’s the problem. It had worked in the past, and I assume it will work now and onwards into the future.
Is it time for revision? Now, as a husband and father?
Truth is, I’ve always struggled with rest, with being lazy. I felt it held me back from what I want to achieve, the future I’m striving so hard for. But now with my experiments in being opportunistic trickster, I realising the real benefits of flaneuring, having time to wander, having downtime. Being lazy actually helps me get to my goals faster. Now I can’t say no to that.
Hunt like a lion instead of grazing like a cow, @naval says. Hunt, eat, rest instead of grazegrazegraze endlessly through the months and years.
Perhaps it really is time to rethink this. And to act as a different person.
I probably said the same thing 6 months ago. Yet, 6 months later, I’m still here. This is one of those problems that feels like it’ll take my life’s work to disentangle.
One day, I will. One day…
I’m waaay too busy.
6 months ago I wrote that I’m not successful because I’m too busy.
6 months later, nothing’s changed…yet.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s because I do enjoy working.
Work is fun.
Work is satisfying.
Work gives me purpose.
Work feeds me and the family.
Work drives me to grow as a person.
But yet there’s always this conflict, this unhealthy loop:
I enjoy work. I work too much. I feel burned out. I want to be less busy. I work less. I feel rested. I get bored. I start work again. I enjoy work. I work too much…
Rinse and repeat. I’ve been looping through this for maybe the past 10 years perhaps? Ever since I went self-employed.
My relationship with work is not the healthiest, but it had worked for me so far. Maybe that’s the problem. It had worked in the past, and I assume it will work now and onwards into the future.
Is it time for revision? Now, as a husband and father?
Truth is, I’ve always struggled with rest, with being lazy. I felt it held me back from what I want to achieve, the future I’m striving so hard for. But now with my experiments in being opportunistic trickster, I realising the real benefits of flaneuring, having time to wander, having downtime. Being lazy actually helps me get to my goals faster. Now I can’t say no to that.
Hunt like a lion instead of grazing like a cow, @naval says. Hunt, eat, rest instead of grazegrazegraze endlessly through the months and years.
Perhaps it really is time to rethink this. And to act as a different person.
I probably said the same thing 6 months ago. Yet, 6 months later, I’m still here. This is one of those problems that feels like it’ll take my life’s work to disentangle.
One day, I will. One day…
