Get Everything Done

I suspect most readers understand this without it being said, but I thought maybe it should be said anyhow, though it’s hard to express (I keep rewriting this next sentence.)

When I write here describing a system that’s working for me, the picture presented isn’t necessarily a balanced representation, but more of the sunny side. A lot of time I’ll fumble with things that aren’t working, tweak them a bit, and when it works, you see the thing that works. But maybe sometime after it isn’t working, you might not get a post expressing the failure. Or maybe something continues working, but not every day. There are ups and downs. And maybe the system seems to be functional, but I nevertheless don’t achieve what I hoped to.

This is not to say things are all messy, because that’s not true either. I generally feel things are working for me now. But levels of working varies. And modes of working varies. And a system as described doesn’t capture all the nuances of what works and doesn’t, but is merely a best foot put forward, attempting to convey what’s good.

Sometimes it feels like I have a good idea and I'm motivated to stick to it so I can document and share. And once that's accomplished, the extra motivation is gone. So if I want to stay motivated, best keep it a secret. And lately I've been doing that. Holding back to keep the buzz of making things clearer, surer, more important to keep it up.

I could, as you suggest, share more, and redrum the same beats, and have the "next article" always motivating me. But unless there's enthusiastic reception for the previous, it would feel more like I'm being tedious and redundant rather than helpful. And yet, every new thing [not self-management related] that draws me in, it's the frequent reiteration of the idea that pulls me over.