Brave Beginnings.

How to be productive? Its not as easy as it seems.

As a child from the slacker generation (or the one that came slightly after it), underachieving comes easily to me. Yeah, I see the irony in that. But I wish it didn't. I wish I created more, saw more, did more, and wrote more. So this is a start. But everyone has a blog, right? How do you turn that into a tool, not just to masturbate/flagellate the ego, but to actually promote and assist creativity?

Here is where I'm starting. Its a simple principle - set a goal and have an easily visual reminder/accountability tool. I guess this works because, for those of us who don't go into an office each day, we need a replacement for the social pressure of co-workers, dress codes, and office schedules.

I sort of envy those naturally self-motivated, self-driven, high achievers. The Tony Starks of the real world that have no problem just handling a dozen different projects every day. It would probably help to be born a billionaire, sure. But there are plenty of really good self-starting people in the world that weren't. I'm just not one of them.

But I am motivated enough to try this trick though. I ordered a calendar today which I will hopefully receive by the end of the week. So thats accountability sorted. But what about purpose?

Well, I have some fairly esoteric interests. From politics to game mechanics. From Lego's to world health. I play the occasional game of toy solders too but I sort of deal with that in another blog already. This then, I will keep for everything else.

I will publish a post on this and/or my other blog every day. Not all will be 'complete' articles, as it were. Some will no doubt just be progress updates and some may just ask a lot of questions, rather than providing any answers. 

Its a broad remit then and should produce a fairly varied read. Hopefully, producing it will teach me a few things as well and open up some avenues for further, offline, activities. My plan will be to do it for 365 days, so consider this one down.