I'm definitely not the first to understand this, but it's something I had to realise for myself and which seems like it would be a great help to the many people I know that force themselves to work on their passions every day for an allotted period of time.
If that works for you, great. If you feel like you're making a passion a chore, you should know that it's not your only approach and may not be the best suited to you, if you're someone who dislikes the rigidity of set routine and prefers working with peaks and troughs of concentration.
Say you invest an hour a day into your hobby. That adds up to a total of 7 hours a week. Say then that you invest an entire Saturday or Sunday into the stuff, and say that accounting for daily needs of cooking, toilet-going etc, that might add up to something like a total of 12 hours. You've already sped past the guy who puts in a daily hour, and you might actually be more productive seen as you're sustaining focus over a single session and may find yourself building momentum.
This depends on a few conditions, like that you have a Saturday or Sunday or other willing to spare, or your passion is something that can be pursued at least tangentially at home, or your passion is something that can be worked at for long stretches without inviting exhaustion (not for gym-goers) - but it's possible for many. If you've really GotMotivated, you could always throw in the other weekend day. Or if you don't have a full one free, maybe you could manage 6 hours spread over both. The crux of this post is that one day doesn't have to look like the next and you could be better off measuring your progress over a wider unit of time, like a week or a month.
Submitted October 25, 2017 at 02:38PM by Rumple28 http://ift.tt/2zBk1mP
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