Too Tired for Passion Projects? Try This Low-Stakes Hack

What we want to do isn't always the stuff we give ourselves permission to do. If you're noticing that the compulsories of life are crowding out everything else, take a listen to this episode and get neuroscience based strategies to flip that script.

1. Task lists are elastic. Since you'll never cross everything off they distort your sense of accomplishment and efficacy.
2. It doesn't take courage to plow through mundane tasks. The dopamine hit you get from these low stakes accomplishments masks the fear you feel at tackling those big life goals, robbing you of feeling true satisfaction, purpose or success.
3. Re prioritize your day by blocking off a small amount of time each day to work on advancing your career goals. This will leverage the Zeigarnik Effect to work for you instead of against you. The momentum you get from incremental but regular progress will keep you coming back for the next installment of your success saga.
4. Make time to savor life and have fun. This restores your creativity way more than locking yourself away in task jail.
5. Build restorative time into your daily and weekly routines so it gets normalized instead of feeling like one more thing to do. You get real rewards not cheap dopamine hits.

Check out my new Perfectionist Trap guide to learn more: https://architectingpodcast.com/index.php/perfectionismtrap/

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