I hadn't intended to do a follow up post on this so quickly (see yesterday's post), but I had the opportunity today to apply the practice at work for the first time, and I was impressed at what a difference it made, both in how I felt about work, and in what I got done.
Throughout the day I kept the concept of doing things because I wanted to in the forefront of my mind. It seemed to simply obliterate one of the mental blocks that sometimes ties me up and keeps me from applying myself to a task.
It also helped me stay focused on one thing at a time and finish it - or make significant progress at least - before getting called off to something else. I wasn't sabotaging myself by seeking distractions from something I didn't really want to do -- because I wanted to do it!
One thing that I worked on most of the afternoon was working on strategic planning objectives - a somewhat complex and mind-tying-up-in-knots exercise that I had either procrastinated on for the past several months - or when I did look at out of a sense that "I have to do this" - quickly became frustrated and found a "happy distraction" to take me away from it.
It seems nice, and a little weird, to be able to say "I only work on things that I want to."
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