Motivation and time measurement
So the idea of motivation has been on my mind, mostly due to the endless list of things I want to learn or acheve and the percieved limited time I have to do them. How do I pick out the things that are best and put myself 100% into them so I can get the most out of them?
As usual I have been trying to read as much as possible, currently I’m working through the quick novels like Alice in Wonderland and Jekyll and Hyde that I never read as a kid. The problem is, as important as this reading is I am not putting the required time into exam preparation and study which is less than 2 weeks away. Also I cannot help but dread the time I should be dedicating to exercising and sport, which previously were a major part of my life and in neglecting these I feel I am letting myself down.
As a student of management I should probably be putting the idea of “what gets measured gets managed” into practice, this way i should feel motivated to A) not waste time daydreaming and sleeping in; and B) start Achieving the most possible. Sebastian Marshal has a simple concept of ranking activities into expansion, maintenance and world. Every creative thing gets put into ‘expansion’, every important thing that is not creating something is in ‘maintenance’ and recovery things such as meditation are in ‘world’. Daily improvement would theoretically come as a result of this..
So on the list is: Start Measuring Time
Also just randomly I am trying to study some of the philosophical classics such as Plato’s ‘The Republic”, again because such knowledge may be important in the future.
Strikee 