Johann Van Tonder

The most common disguises of procrastination Learning, researching, organizing, and building systems are the most tempting forms of procrastination. You can tell yourself that you're "making progress" only to avoid the point where you need to make a decision on what to do next. Even having to get feedback on every action you take is ultimately a

Writers must therefore constantly ask: what am I trying to say?

Surprisingly often they don’t know.

Then they must look at what they have written and ask: have I said it?
Is it clear to someone encountering the subject for the first time?

On Writing Well, William Zinsser

“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours

“Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.”

• Time Magazine (1966)

If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).

Your core values are there already. Just slow down and let them be. Values like courage, authenticity, strength, innovation, creativity, wisdom, joy, love are inherent within you. You don't need to strive to create or find them; just remove the mental blocks that hinder their expression. These blocks usually stem from the mind, such as limiting

“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”

• Thomas Edison (1889)