| It's not letting me edit so here's another one 13. Whenever you feel like you can't possibly work, remind yourself that this might not be a true feeling. Concentration can take time to build up, for me its often something like 20 minutes (which is, incidentally why my meditation book says you should meditate for at least 45 minutes - the first 15-20 are just warm up - the productive work gets done in the last half hour). Pick the smallest possible thing related to your work, no matter how small or stupid it feels, and do it. E.g. for me, as a programmer: - I suppose in order to work I have to open my IDE. I guess I can do that. Here it is on my task bar. Click. OK first step complete. - I suppose in order to continue to work I should open the project I need to work on. I guess that's doable without thinking. File > Open > Foo.project. Exhale. - OK. OK. OK. I suppose, if I were working the next thing I would need to do is find the file I need to edit and open it. (Or remember what the last thing I was working on). OK. Remembered. File navigated to. File open. - Exhale. OK. I suppose, if I were working the next thing I would need to do is find the function I was last editing. what was it called again? I don't remember, just diff with source control. Ah, OK foobardef. Close diff. Go back to file. Control-F foobardef. - What was I trying to do again, OK, I guess let's figure out where I left off by skimming or reading the code that's there... etc, etc, etc... |