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Develop habits. They tend to work much better than relying on willpower. Especially when you’re feeling down or less energetic or inspired. As mentioned elsewh
by gshdg 7y ago
Develop habits. They tend to work much better than relying on willpower. Especially when you’re feeling down or less energetic or inspired.
As mentioned elsewhere, start with the tiniest, lowest-willpower possible variant of your habit. Once you’ve been doing it for 3-4 weeks, you can increase the scope or ambition of the habit. Do that for another 3-4 weeks, iterate ad infinitum.
For managing scope creep, develop systems or processes for deciding what to work on. Make a habit of working only on things bubbled up by the system.
- dhruvkar 7y agoThat last bit is interesting. How do you design a system for bubbling up relevant habits to ingrain (or increasing scope to established habits)?
- gshdg 7y agoOh, wow, you took that in a direction I didn’t expect. I meant that you might benefit from a system to manage scope on the projects you mentioned struggling with scope creep on. But applying that to the development of habits themselves too is a really interesting idea. I’d never thought of that before and am not sure how you’d approach it.