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
it’s a thing I want to do and
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 – some people know how to have hobbies – but it might work for you.
I have no idea what a ‘Skinty Fia’ is or why the old man is sitting in the side room of the painfully trendy party, but the song is excellent.
Print update: After I printed my photos, I scanned the little thermal prints at my cheap HP printer/scanner’s highest resolution. The result is big low-resolution pixellated images. But they aren’t perfect square pixels like I would have gotten if I had just processed the photos on my computer. This step of putting them into the physical world has given them a blobby imprecision I couldn’t get if I had kept them as data in my devices.
Grow slowly
Jeff
I see you in me and that is why I like thee. I love other trees.🌳 🌴🌵🌲