Let's Fight (our) Mediocrity, One Round at a Time!
All tagged Motivation
One of my LinkedIn contacts recently tagged one of his posts with “Daydreaming, after all, is just a form of planning.” When I saw this line, I knew it was the missing piece for this article that I have been pondering over for quite a while. As it turns out, I have without knowing prior to writing this article, practiced what NYU Professor of Psychology Gabriele Oettingen calls “Mental Contrasting for Goal-Fulfillment.”, a framework to tap into daydreams for motivation and more productivity.
I suggest that instead of just pressing F5 on the Worldometer Coronavirus Live Update, you get your butt off the couch and get your blood pumping with a proper “prison-style” home workout. And afterward, do an online course, clean-up your clutter, call family and friends or practice a musical instrument. Just do something!
As I believe in the power of music, I thought I’d share my “Life-Sparring Fight Music” playlist with you. Two hours of tracks with the sole purpose to push you to your limit that has served me well over the past few years, every time I needed a bit of a kick in my behind.
Despite knowing that you actually could change your life on any given day, I am a committed practitioner of New Year’s resolutions. The change of the year has this magical aura that calls for big changes, even if we then often fall back to our old ways.
The Quantified Self Hong Kong meet-up discussed in December about “How to Quantify Your 2018 Goals”. One of my contributions to the debate was the idea of a little 3-step framework to put self-tracking into a larger context of self-improvement.
While the framework is actually quite simple, I thought it might be worth to write the idea out in full, give it a funky name and open it for a broader discussion. So, without further ado, let me introduce the GoMoTo-Framework.
