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All therapy in different disguises.
Inner demons are almost always bad for us. I am finding that my business problems mostly reflect personal issues I have not solved - oddly it makes approaching therapy much easier
I'd love to convince you to beemind projects that you want to force yourself to see to fruition. http://beeminder.com (I'm a co-founder) If I'm lucky others will chime in to back me up that it's astoundingly effective for exactly the psychology you describe. We can unambiguously say that Beeminder itself wouldn't have survived without beeminding it. :)
I'd love to convince you to beemind projects that you want to force yourself to see to fruition. http://beeminder.com (I'm a co-founder) If I'm lucky others will chime in to back me up that it's astoundingly effective for exactly the psychology you describe. We can unambiguously say that Beeminder itself wouldn't have survived without beeminding it. :)
Looks like an interesting project; suggestion: reshoot your intro video without making Bethany laugh while she's explaining how the site works - I found it very distracting and thus hard to take her seriously. If she's just a giggler by nature then maybe find someone else to do the presentation :-)
And, yes, that's me making her laugh. I was trying hard to get her to conceal how much she hates making videos! :)
But let's save this stuff for our next "Show HN". For this thread I'm really eager to hear thoughts on whether self-tracking and commitment devices are a good approach to the OP's problem.
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For some reason there's an endless supply of people who eventually have the thought, "I should make a to-do-list app."
Guilty! I think it's an entrepreneurial rite of passage or something.
http://www.workflowy.com Life-changing.
Is this a parody? Not to be cynical, but I'm curious how a nested to-do list can have such an impact that it prompts people to say "this made me cry."
Planning gets simple and you tend to do things the better way, your mind which was just filled with things about this and that is now ready to do something about those things.
Of course its still odd to link someone to just a to-do list manager instead someone should explain what should be done with that tool.
From the website's testimonials: "Prediction: @WorkFlowy and @Quora will each revolutionise significant parts of education in the next 5 years." LOLOLOL.
An old friend sufferes from a very similar problem, and it's basically been following him around his whole life (sadly, I don't think he's gotten past it even in his mid-30s). He gets _very_ excited about something. A new technology, a new idea, a new trade, whatever. He goes head-first into it. He becomes an expert (he's one of the smartest people I've ever met). He may even launch a company around it. And then some…
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Ask for an out. Explain that it's how you keep your skills up to date, and that it lets you be a more productive and effective employee. In the past I've had this clause in my contracts and had them take it out. They did.
Seems like it could be a long shot in large organizations. The managers close enough to you to be on your side don't have enough clout to override HR responding with "we don't make changes to employee contracts", and the ones who do aren't in touch with the craft enough to understand why you'd want such an exception.
In one case, an international company with a couple-thousand employees in the US, the company lawyers never got back to me, but the next year the contract was changed and it included a variation of my original proposed language. In the other case, a US company with tens of thousands of employees, the company lawyers got back to me immediately with a statement about how they intended the existing language to be interpreted (and this addressed my concerns).
I can't promise you will get the same results, but I thought it was worth sharing my anecdotes.