Scary....

[noahgibbs]

Really productive few days. Yesterday I got *much* done on the MUD. Yay for evaluation by new eyes (thanks, xeyda!). But mainly there's a bunch I've been meaning to do and I got a bunch done.

Since I didn't sleep that much last night, I was kinda figuring on making it home and then collapsing. Didn't work that way, though... I took out the trash, washed and folded laundry, vacuumed my room, dug out tax paperwork, filed stuff that had been sitting on my floor, filed stuff that had been sitting in the other room for months...

Man, I miss being this productive as a regular thing.

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[ex-five-by-f291.livejournal.com]

Mmm...productivity...share please...

[notchanges.livejournal.com]

Yeeeess, why is it that some days we scurry around and accomplish more things than we have done in a month's time? Although I enjoy the productive days, it leaves me with some concerns. Have I in fact spent my energy in one burst, and that is why it is gone for the remainder of the month? Have I done everything there is to do, and must then wait for things to build up again? Am I destined to live my life on a sine wave of productivity? Is there any way to use these bursts to keep my home in a constant state of neatness?

Someone ran an article in the paper about people who are workaholics, but who don't mind because they enjoy their work. I believe the goal was to motivate, but as usual because I am nothing like what they describe I feel even less motivated. A surgeon who is 96 and still doing surgery, also writing articles and running a national school of medicine. Whee. But I don't fit in at all, I have no desire to cut people open (wee-ell and sew them up again, that is), I don't particularly feel the urge to share my (dubious) knowledge with the (half-braindead) public ... I think I might be a touch too negative to live to 96 ... there's all manner of problems with this idea!

So, then, let us cheer our productive days, perhaps they are all we need because we are better at kicking back! Or something.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

A sine wave of productivity is actually all that's required to live in a constant state of neatness. I've done it. You do little minor upkeep during low-productivity times - picking up fuzz and lint off the carpet, throwing away windblown trash from the lawn, halfheartedly sorting the papers on your desk into "probably important" and "everything else"...

Then when the productivity peak hits, you do all the more major stuff you've been putting off - vacuuming, throwing out the papers that you should have gotten rid of, weeding and mowing, mopping...

The only exception is when a catastrophe hits, like a pipe bursting or a big wet muddy dog running all over your living room. When that happens, it always kicks *me* briefly into productive mode, just long enough to clean up the mess, so that takes care of itself.

Lately that hasn't been happening, partly 'cause my productive energy has been going elsewhere, partly 'cause there hasn't been much of it. But it worked for a couple of years in my previous place...