Leaf on the Wind
I know, I know, I promised a proper blog post this week, yet here we are, with another filler blog post. I totally started writing it by the way, it's about 50% done, it's just that something else kind of came up.
Then, for some reason, it got really hard to focus on writing a blog post about the trials and tribulations of building a capacity management platform for Atlassian.
Weird that.
Impending cyclone and the potential destruction of everything I told dear aside, it's not like this is the first time that my effectiveness has been impacted by the threat of something in the future.
It happens to me annoyingly often, that sense of inertia or lack of motivation to do X, because I'm waiting for A to resolve to a meaningful conclusion (and possibly also waiting for B, C, D, E and F, while wondering if I should be putting effort into G, H, I and J).
I'm sure that feeling has a name, but a quick internet search didn't find anything useful. The same internet search did imply that extreme versions of this sort of thing are linked to ADHD though, so that's fun.
The closest name I found was just cognitive overload, but I think that's more about having too many things going at once, as opposed to just the lingering desire to not start new things because you're waiting for something else to happen.
Maybe it's just plain old anxiety?
As with most of these sorts of things, the biggest mistake that you can make, and that I make sometimes, is to spend too long thinking about it and deliberating. Much better to just get in and get started, because once you break the ice like that, things mostly just flow and you get stuff done.
Which is sort of why I pivoted to this filler blog post, but also sort of why I should not have pivoted to this filler blog post and instead just focused on continuing to write the one that was already in flight.
Ah well, too late now to second guess the stupid decisions of my past sense.
Best keep moving forward.
Just like that cyclone.
I bet it doesn't overthink things.
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