HOW TO ACTUALLY GET THINGS DONE
by Carl Mojeta
If you want, for instance, to finally organize your bedroom and have it rid of all dust and other ungodly substances, the solution is outrageously simple; one simply has to make a determined decision to read and respond to work-related emails. This will trigger the natural human instinct to avoid work and your brain starts coming up with whatever excuse it can muster just to avoid having to actually start, and that said excuse, is more often than not, cleaning stuff.
On the other hand, if you want to actually start accomplishing work related matters, one simply has to make the conscious decision to wash the dishes. This will, in similar fashion, inspire a rather passionate idea that one simply doesn’t have time for such trivial things, because there are loads of work to do, which, in fact, what one always ends up doing instead.
Furthermore, if you want to come up with the best ideas ever, all you need to do is to decide to sleep early at night. People in the artistic field are very familiar with this predicament, for the reason that many of them are, through no fault of their own, insomniacs. They will tell you that the best ideas come at 2 am, but one can’t simply wait around in bed for them to come, otherwise, they never will. The solution lies in the maddening effort to sleep early, because only then will your body organize a rather powerful protest that you end up lying awake all night against your will. And that’s when the most inspired ideas come to you, and are willing to stay with you so long as you stay in bed and not do anything about it. For the moment that you start to get up and write them down, they will have gone from your memory, never to be recovered in saecula saeculorum.