The 6 Step Plan to Get Out of Your Productivity Rut

via Lifehack by Cody Wheeler

I have a confession to make.

95% of the time I’m on it. I’m either writing, connecting, researching, learning, or doing something to better myself and my life. But, there are some days when I don’t get a whole lot done.

I’m not necessarily a “Type A” naturally driven and productive person. I’ve just become that way over time. Sometimes that old me that wants to lay around and do nothing comes out and shows its ugly face, and it rains all over my otherwise flowing exuberant productivity parade.

Don’t feel bad if that’s you too from time-to-time. There are times when everyone has their off days, even me.

What’s important is that you don’t let it happen too often. Most of the time you’ll take a break from your fast-paced life, then get right back on your horse and go back to getting things done.

You can continue with Cody’s original post here but first, before you dismiss this as being entirely inappropriate to Elefriends, think about your journey towards better mental health as your task, what it is that you are trying to be productive about.

For example: The longer you don’t do something, the more likely you are not going to do it.

That’s not just about work life that is life life.

Is the mending pile impossible to see over?
Clean clothes strewn around waiting to be ironed? Things pulled out from the bottom and ironed as needed?
Did you promise to put up that shelf? How long ago was that?
What about painting the front door before it falls down?

Those are examples from my own life. You will, no doubt, have your own which may be nothing to do with physical things around you which are getting you down.

Give the 15-minutes at a time process a try.

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Insomnia: relax… and stop worrying about lack of sleep

via SocietyGuardian - news, comment and analysis on the public and voluntary sectors

What is the solution to the torture of insomnia?
Drugs?
Therapy?
Or are different sleep patterns natural?

A new book investigates.

You can read the full article here which is an edited extract from the book Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by David K. Randall

Many of my Ele friends will be only too aware that a lack of sleep is not a problem that I associate with. I can sleep on a clothes-line at any time of day or night and whilst I can wake in the middle of the night worrying about something I very soon go back to sleep – there are times when short-term memory loss is a blessing!!

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How to Be Honest with Yourself and Get More Done

Finally, at long last, etc etc!!

I suspect that this blog will contain more than a few links to Lifehack but please note that the tips and advice provided are not designed necessarily for people with mental health problems. What I pick will, however, be those that I think some of my Elefriends will be able to use.

“You can dramatically change your life but only if you have the desire to change, the decision to take action, the discipline to practice the new behaviours you have chosen, and the determination to persist until you get the results you want.”
Brian Tracy

• “I just need to focus.”
• “I just need to buckle down.”
• “I just need to have more willpower.”
• “I already know what to do, I just need to do it.”

Continue reading here

I wonder how many times I&rsquo;ve said one or more of the above. And telling myself what I already know is a waste of time, energy and breath &ndash; it does not work!

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