Productivity

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If you've been following along, you know that I'm not a big fan of like setting goals and trying to be quote-unquote productive in retirement. But from time to time, there are things that I need to get done around the house. And I do struggle sometimes to sort of keep these projects moving forward. And one of the things that's helped me a lot, and I actually got this from a comment here on the platform. This idea, and that was just pick one thing that you're going to do and tell yourself you're going to do that today. And I'm embarrassed to admit how helpful that has been. Like it seems so simple, but it's been pretty incredible. I have a couple of pretty good sized projects that I'm working on at the house. And what I'll say to myself is, you know, today, all you're going to do is... Mark off where you're going to run that Romex. And I'll go down, I'll mark off where I'm going to run it. And usually I'll say, oh shoot, I could probably go ahead and drill those holes while I'm at it. And I'll usually do a couple of little extras while I'm at it because I've already accomplished the goal. And so I already feel kind of good because I did the thing I set out to do. So that gives me a little bump to do a little extra. But I never feel like I need to do extra. But I almost always do. But if you're struggling to move that little project down the road, just say tomorrow, I'm just going to do this one thing. And make it something simple, like something that takes 10 minutes.