Exercise 6. find

Hopefully you are discovering the various ways you sabotage yourself even before you begin to work. Maybe it’s not that dramatic, but you should at least be identifying things you can improve in your environment that are making it difficult for you to start working. These little exercises are a good way for you to focus on the beginning since they are not that important and fit into a time scale that you can analyze. If these projects were hours long, you’d get bored reviewing what you’ve done and making improvements. A short 45-minute project is something you can take notes about (or record) and review very quickly.

This is a pattern I use throughout my studies. I’ll identify something that I need to improve on, such as how ...

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