The meaning you give work determines its difficulty. A coder working on a passion project works 12 hours straight and calls it energizing. That same programmer, doing maintenance on legacy code they consider meaningless, feels exhausted after 2 hours. Your relationship with the work shapes its weight more than the work itself.
Isabel Mind Mine Newsletter – slow down; to be, without being in a rush
I am quite good at rushing—at doing things in a high-intensity, high-pressure way. But, I’m better off when I remember to take my time, to realize that the journey is long and it should be treated with patience. This is the muscle I have spent the last two years or so cultivating: the ability to be, without being in a rush. Because I want to be ready for the sprints to come, but I don’t want to be someone who goes out of my way to find them, who seeks out the rush just to feel normal. I want to remember that going slower isn’t worse; and sometimes it’s the only way to build the strength we need to go fast.
Vitamin for the Low Spirit: Seth Godin’s Newsletter
Motivation booster is not necessarily found in expensive things as traveling abroad or some exotic places. Sometimes we are relieved after reading an Instagram post or talking to a charming and resourceful salesperson in a pharmacy store. We can find booster in the small things, for example in this Seth Godin's newsletter: "And Also Convenient".
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