Interesting book, online courses
A friend recently told me to read a book, "Refuse to choose", by Barbara Sher. It's about people who are unable to find their one special calling, because their brain doesn't work that way. They need to do different things, because it's all so shiny. Well I did order the book, and have read a deal of it, and wow. Very helpful for me, as I am definitely such a person, and she's giving tips about how to deal with it - that it's okay to leave projects one starts for their own amusement when they stop being fun, but also how to preserve ideas for later when you should be doing something else now. How to cherish all the ideas, without giving up because their isn't time enough to do everything anyway, so why should I even start? That it's okay to work on five different things at once, and I don't have to decide to concentrate on one, and only go on once I've finished that one.
And wow, does that help. I'm actually much more motivated and filled with energy now that I've started to learn a tiny bit of Spanish every day, and a tiny bit of physics every day, and started on my Harry Potter story again with the goal to just write a few sentences every day. I've also gone back to learning morse code and I attend an online course from the University of Toronto, by way of coursera.org, about "Aboriginal Worldviews and education". Very fascinating! That is just quite a lot, and work being quite stressful at the moment, I hope I have the time to actually finish my coursework.
So, I find it really fascinating that I'm much less stressed now with time-stress at work and so many different projects, than I was before, where I always wanted to do all this stuff (and so much more!), but thought I had to decide. Who cares if each thing takes much longer than it would if I just kept with one? (Also, from experience, it still probably wouldn't be faster, I would just stop and feel guilty about stopping...)
And wow, does that help. I'm actually much more motivated and filled with energy now that I've started to learn a tiny bit of Spanish every day, and a tiny bit of physics every day, and started on my Harry Potter story again with the goal to just write a few sentences every day. I've also gone back to learning morse code and I attend an online course from the University of Toronto, by way of coursera.org, about "Aboriginal Worldviews and education". Very fascinating! That is just quite a lot, and work being quite stressful at the moment, I hope I have the time to actually finish my coursework.
So, I find it really fascinating that I'm much less stressed now with time-stress at work and so many different projects, than I was before, where I always wanted to do all this stuff (and so much more!), but thought I had to decide. Who cares if each thing takes much longer than it would if I just kept with one? (Also, from experience, it still probably wouldn't be faster, I would just stop and feel guilty about stopping...)