I read a great article this week on The New York Times that resonated with me on several levels and it is something everyone should read. I’m leaving a link to that article at the end of this post. In the article ‘The ‘Busy’ Trap’, author Tim Kreider takes a look into our every day stressed out, anxiety ridden “busy” lives. His raises and answers some fundamental questions – Why ARE we busy? Do we HAVE to be busy? This article got me thinking.
GTD – Tips to Process
Distracted
My Writing Workflow
Everyone has their own style of approach towards a craft. Ruskin Bond uses pencils & typewriters, Hemingway used moleskins. One writes in the morning, another at midnight. One writes everyday, another writes only when the muse comes calling. To each his own. Every writer has a flow & their respective tools and setups. In this post I try to explain my writing workflow – How I write? When I write? What are the tools I use?
3-Day Monk
I’m often what the Japanese call a 3-Day Monk – a person who picks up a cause, a subject, a skill, or an idea, pursues it passionately for a while, and then gets tired of it and moves on to something else. Most of us suffer from this syndrome. The resolutions we take when the going is tough which are conveniently forgotten when things ease up are telltale signs of the 3-Day Monk. I have these sudden bursts of desire to get something done which whimper out after sometime leaving a trail of unfinished commitments. When I started blogging in 2009, this is what happened. I blogged for a while, then stopped, after a year, ’suddenly realized that I had a blog, wrote one-two posts and again stopped, finally letting it die in 2011. Not limited to blogging but, I’ve seen this in other aspects of my life too. No wonder I got so very little accomplished. I wanted to know if I could do something about it. So I sat and wrote myself some tips: