http://thealternatingcurrent.com/2009/02/friday-reading-list/ A Resource For People with Too Many Passions Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://thealternatingcurrent.com/2009/02/friday-reading-list/comment-page-1/#comment-26 dialoguers Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:25 +0000 http://thealternatingcurrent.com/?p=259#comment-26 Thanks for that link that sent me to the Illuminated Mind blog. I call the paradoxical attitude that ambition toward productivity is misplaced: "Productive Procrastination." I've learned that there always has to be a time for me to do nothing - sometimes an extended time. So I make that happen for myself, extended blocks of times when I do nothing but put other people's needs before my own. Otherwise, I have found that all the other creative innovating that will become a motivating focus for my inner reasons to be productive doesn't occur. Always find myself asking the question, "Productive to do what?" The assumptions uncovered by that question are worth following. Also enjoy remembering to "keep my eyes on the prize." As I asked these questions, the answers I got was that the ways and the means I am using as I go about accomplishing goals comes to form patterns, strategies and attitudes that are more significant than end results. Thanks for that link that sent me to the Illuminated Mind blog. I call the paradoxical attitude that ambition toward productivity is misplaced: “Productive Procrastination.” I’ve learned that there always has to be a time for me to do nothing – sometimes an extended time. So I make that happen for myself, extended blocks of times when I do nothing but put other people’s needs before my own. Otherwise, I have found that all the other creative innovating that will become a motivating focus for my inner reasons to be productive doesn’t occur. Always find myself asking the question, “Productive to do what?” The assumptions uncovered by that question are worth following. Also enjoy remembering to “keep my eyes on the prize.” As I asked these questions, the answers I got was that the ways and the means I am using as I go about accomplishing goals comes to form patterns, strategies and attitudes that are more significant than end results.

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