She had read the book, and said, “It seems like you try so hard, it might be easier to just have ADD.” or ADHD.
Well, no.
A) if I didn’t have strategies and keep working at it, my whole life would be a shambles. That would be much more stress than the effort of coping.
B) once I identify a problem and make a strategy into a habit, then there is no effort involved. That is the beauty of habits. (ie they require no willpower).
doug
A couple of tips from comments: 1) robin reports that if you lose something you’ve typed,
ctrl Z is undelete. thats good to know.
2) i think it was nerea? (sorry) who noted the benefits of microsoft outlook.
comments are much appreciated
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1. good point, when is it worth the effort to become more effective- ie, to form a new habit- and when can we relax and say we are doing good enough? I think it depends on identifying a problem and deciding if it is causing enough trouble to be worth the effort to work on it.
2. and you illustrate the beauty of habits, once its a habit its no more effort.
3. and you illustrate human nature, once we find something that really works, we tend to quit doing it..why is that? (fortunately, not always, and sometimes we’ll pick it up again).
thank you for your good and thought provoking comments.
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I have wondered if in all my effort to become effective, I am just getting more effective at thinking about it, and not at actual effectiveness. Does it make me more effective at assisting other
people to be more effective, does it make them any more effective, or am I just co-opting
others (effectively) into sharing my hyper-focused view that it’s possible to
become progressively more effective?
After many years of this, I now find many of my strategies have either fallen by the wayside, or become habitual. I hope the ones off by the wayside were ineffective, and not just inconvenient. Etcetera.
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