Discussion Forum > How to do you stop from switching systems and tools?!
I totally understand the ITCH TO SWITCH.
If you yearn to switch, it is because something isn't right and isn't working for you in your current system. You need to REFINE your chosen system for itch to be replaced with contentment.
Once you do that, the ITCH TO SWITCH will abate.
So think deeply about why it isn't working, and what tweaks you can do to make whatever particular issue you have less problematic within your current system.
But make sure you are comfortable on the whole with your current system. I use a totally paper based system. So perhaps you need to think big picture. Is it largely paper based, with some tech add -ons, or largely tech based with some paper add ons? Then as soon as you have a gimmer of hope, something feels good - follow that and REFINE not switch again. Then refine again, and again and again.
Everyone has such a unique path in life, different circumstances, different pressures, that refinement is the way to go, not switching and switching. That way your system becomes very very personal to you. As it should.
Switching is very very very very time consuming imo as well as stressful, although I am thinking along the lines of paper to tech or one tech system to another or one planner system to another, and perhaps just modifications of the way you scan and re-write your To Do list will be much more minor, I understand that. So it also depends on how you define switching !!
If you yearn to switch, it is because something isn't right and isn't working for you in your current system. You need to REFINE your chosen system for itch to be replaced with contentment.
Once you do that, the ITCH TO SWITCH will abate.
So think deeply about why it isn't working, and what tweaks you can do to make whatever particular issue you have less problematic within your current system.
But make sure you are comfortable on the whole with your current system. I use a totally paper based system. So perhaps you need to think big picture. Is it largely paper based, with some tech add -ons, or largely tech based with some paper add ons? Then as soon as you have a gimmer of hope, something feels good - follow that and REFINE not switch again. Then refine again, and again and again.
Everyone has such a unique path in life, different circumstances, different pressures, that refinement is the way to go, not switching and switching. That way your system becomes very very personal to you. As it should.
Switching is very very very very time consuming imo as well as stressful, although I am thinking along the lines of paper to tech or one tech system to another or one planner system to another, and perhaps just modifications of the way you scan and re-write your To Do list will be much more minor, I understand that. So it also depends on how you define switching !!
January 27, 2022 at 13:53 |
Mrs Move Forward
Mrs Move Forward
<< Switching is very very very very time consuming imo as well as stressful >>
That is often true, but it is also true that starting up with a new system can bring a fresh burst of productivity and focus. Switching systems frequently can be a pretty effective system in itself. Melanie Wilson writes about this in her book where she tried a new productivity system every week for a whole year.
<< When I began outlining the book based on my years of experimenting, I thought I would be writing a best-practices book. I foolishly believed that I could determine which methods would work best for you. The years that followed taught me that I couldn't even predict which methods would work for me! I realized that experimenting with productivity methods IS the best practice. It isn't something to undertake for just a year but for as long as you desire to get more done.>>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KZNZJ2W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?asin=B07KZNZJ2W&revisionId=&format=2&depth=1
That is often true, but it is also true that starting up with a new system can bring a fresh burst of productivity and focus. Switching systems frequently can be a pretty effective system in itself. Melanie Wilson writes about this in her book where she tried a new productivity system every week for a whole year.
<< When I began outlining the book based on my years of experimenting, I thought I would be writing a best-practices book. I foolishly believed that I could determine which methods would work best for you. The years that followed taught me that I couldn't even predict which methods would work for me! I realized that experimenting with productivity methods IS the best practice. It isn't something to undertake for just a year but for as long as you desire to get more done.>>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KZNZJ2W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?asin=B07KZNZJ2W&revisionId=&format=2&depth=1
February 1, 2022 at 7:15 |
Seraphim
Seraphim
Seraphim:
<< "experimenting with productivity methods IS the best practice">>
In that case I should be ruler of the world by now.
"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
<< "experimenting with productivity methods IS the best practice">>
In that case I should be ruler of the world by now.
"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
February 1, 2022 at 9:02 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
By virtue of your diligence, subject to the limitations of your ability, you are among the best in the world at what you’ve been aiming at. I don’t believe you’ve been aiming at world domination.
February 1, 2022 at 16:53 |
Alan Baljeu
Alan Baljeu
Alan Baljeu:
<< I don’t believe you’ve been aiming at world domination. >>
Well, if I was I wouldn't be telling you and everyone else, would I?
<< I don’t believe you’ve been aiming at world domination. >>
Well, if I was I wouldn't be telling you and everyone else, would I?
February 1, 2022 at 21:02 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
We are mere cursors on the screen of Mark Forster's time reality emboitments.
February 2, 2022 at 13:59 |
Mike Brown
Mike Brown
Mike Brown:
<< We are mere cursors on the screen of Mark Forster's time reality emboitments >>
My what?
<< We are mere cursors on the screen of Mark Forster's time reality emboitments >>
My what?
February 2, 2022 at 14:28 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
I don’t believe you are incompetent Mark, hence your lack of progress towards world domination leads me to conclude you haven’t even tried. You’re up to something else.
February 2, 2022 at 16:53 |
Alan Baljeu
Alan Baljeu
Mark Forster:
My love of arcane and baroque language defeats me again.
emboîtement in British English
French (ɑ̃bwatmɑ̃)
noun
biology
the theory, no longer believed, that an egg encases the germs of all future descendants that might develop from that egg, each germ being encased within another germ
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/emboitement
Honestly, I'm not quite sure what I was getting at, apart from being a smarta$$ :)
My love of arcane and baroque language defeats me again.
emboîtement in British English
French (ɑ̃bwatmɑ̃)
noun
biology
the theory, no longer believed, that an egg encases the germs of all future descendants that might develop from that egg, each germ being encased within another germ
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/emboitement
Honestly, I'm not quite sure what I was getting at, apart from being a smarta$$ :)
February 3, 2022 at 16:00 |
Mike Brown
Mike Brown
<< I think ultimately the reason for stopping is there arises a fundamental conflict between what the system tells you to do and what your mind intuitively wants to do >>
Yes exactly! That has been my experience also.