Anxiety Coffee Procrastination Break
"We often make choices based on immediate outcomes. What can I do to experience a little joy in the next 30 minutes? What can I accomplish in the next hour? But if you always expect to get a little bit of reward for a little bit of effort, then you often overlook actions that lead to greater payoffs down the road. The relationship between input and... See more
Wes Claytor • Great Quotes — Wes Claytor
“You feel differently towards the world when you make things.”
Passages Saved From iOS
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
Experience. Don’t observe.
Inhale. Don’t read.
Transfigure. Don’t shift.
Advocate. Don’t ponder.
Prove. Don’t promise.
Encourage. Don’t cut.
Imagine. Don’t worry.
Do. Don’t analyze.
Hear. Don’t listen.
Show. Don’t tell.
Give. Don’t take.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
- When you resist fear: It becomes chronic anxiety. You spin in worst-case scenarios, freeze when it’s time to act, and overthink every move.
- When you resist sadness: It becomes angst and numbness. You get stuck, stop trusting yourself, and lose touch with what matters.
- When you resist anger: It becomes self-criticism, passive aggression, or
Lesson 3: Your “negative” emotions aren’t what you think they are
How I kill procrastination with AI:
1. Pull up voice mode and brain dump what I’m supposed to be working on.
2. Ask it to break the task down into 25 steps with the first one taking less than 5 seconds.
Poof, now I have a checklist to crush. Instant momentum.
Dickie Bushsubstack.com