Varsha Gupta
@varshagupta
Varsha Gupta
very difficult sometimes to distinguish between "is this a hard thing I'm supposed to work through" or "is it hard because it's the wrong thing and I need to let go"
Michelle Elisabeth Varghesex.comso i’ve decided i’m done calling myself lazy ambitious. because i’m tired of wasting my potential. i’m tired of talking like i have all the time in the world. i’m tired of being the girl who could’ve done something but didn’t. and even if nothing comes out of it, i want to at least say i tried.
lazy ambitious. the worst kind of stuck.
I think one of the reasons it took me years to start writing, and even longer to take my own writing seriously, and even longer to share it publicly without being overwhelmed with an obscure feeling of shame about wanting to share it...is that I really believed that there was something frivolous in wanting to do creative work. And that there was... See more
anna | Substack
You know how if you spend the whole day sitting on the couch watching TV, you get kind of restless yet somehow also too tired to get off your butt?
Like you're tired *of* doing nothing, yet you're also tired *from* doing nothing? You know what I'm talking about, the state of "blah".
Well,... See more
Justin Skycakx.com"Things that aren't doing the thing:
- Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
- Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
- Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.
- Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
- Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing.
- Writing a
3-2-1: On the joy of losing, how to set expectations with others, and notes to myself
And it’s really easy to miss this point. It’s easy to always think “I can do this tomorrow” or “this is not a priority” or “this would never work”. And it’s hard, because sometimes those thoughts are correct. But I find that, unless I put in active effort, I’m the kind of person who’ll always have those thoughts. I’ll never actually act upon my... See more
neelnanda.io • Mini Blog Post 3: Become a Person Who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda
Pondering why I don’t feel like doing what I say I want to do, yet discovering one more time how great it often feels after I’ve done it, is just another reliable way to distract myself from the effort of doing the next thing. There is no substitute for “accepting my feelings” (of laziness or boredom, or anxiety, or whatever happens to appear),
... See moreGregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.
And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.
Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it... See more
And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.
Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it... See more