On Just Doing Things (as opposed to Getting Things Done)

One of my new favourite productivity/work flow/improving myself generally bloggers, David Seah, has just started a challenge which I've been struggling with for months...making early rising into a habit. In a post today about feeling totally crap in the initial few days of being an early riser David wrote something that I'd never realised before, but really, totally makes sense: The impulsive side of me enjoys the quest for knowledge as it is happening, so the reward is immediate. The application of that knowledge through process takes time, and the reward is deferred. For people that enjoy the mechanical process ... more