Daily Movement

Jeffrey Phillips writes in Thinking Faster: Getting Unstuck of a few ways to get started again after you’ve accomplished a lot and are unmotivated to start again.

The same thing happens to me and i’ve likened it to a mini-burnout. Every few weeks after making some good progress, I just don’t want to do the next step. The most angst about being unmotivated is when I know what the next step is, I know what needs to be done, and I just don’t want to do it, but I feel that I need to do it. That’s an internal tension that persists.

Sometimes it clears by playing a mini-hookey going a walk and change of environment to get coffee, for instance. Sometimes it requires me to pass the baton to someone else telling them, “I’m burned, can you work on this for me?” Sometimes it requires a manager to tell me that it’s urgent to get the next step done which motivates by adrenaline.

There are no easy or sure fixes for me. I just have to patiently wait the period out.

I think the tipping point has been reached today. The web has been successfully spammed. – google returns 90% or more useless information when searching.

I’m trying to find a keyboard tray that can be attached to a glass table top – i.e. not using screws. I was able to find one by Fellowes, but most of the rest of google results were just spam, i.e. product listings from commerce sites.

To end on a positive note, social tagging, such as http://del.icio.us has a high signal to noise ratio, but it doesn’t have everything under the sun. This is where it’s at.

Addendum 2005-Jul-20:

I wound up purchasing a swing arm keyboard tray from Amazon, but it is really meant to be drilled into the under-the-desk surface. If mounted on glass surface with the double-sided tape, it eventually slides off due to the torquing of the keyboard. I wound up drilling holes in the metal side supports of the glass table, so i was able to use it after all.

Takeaway advice from this is it is more practical to have a wooden desktop.