⏱ TREE 323: I need a job

One.

Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s post about doing the things that are important to your long-term thriving.

If I want to do something and stick to it, it has to be a job with a boss and a deadline. I suck at having hobbies.

Let’s say I wanted to learn how to write. If I told myself that I would do some writing for fun in the evenings, I would write approximately one point five things.

But if I promised a bunch of people I would email them every weekday morning at five – well, then I would have a deadline and a few hundred bosses. Then I would be sure to write. And I would be motivated to improve because if I didn’t, the bosses would get fed up and fire me (unsubscribe).

Turning a thing I want to do into a job doesn’t suck the fun out of it because

1. it’s a thing I want to do and

2. I like having an audience.

If you ever find yourself wanting to do a thing but the motivation isn’t happening, consider turning that thing into a job. It doesn’t work for everyone. But it might work for you.

Two.

Keith has an attachment disorder.

Three.

Yesterday in the comments, Anna told me her favourite song in an odd time signature is this one. It’s in 5/4. The guy with glasses from The National wrote the music and Taylor Swift did what only she can do with the lyrics. What’s your favourite song in 5 or 7 or 11 or something else?

Grow slowly
Jeff