Am I Lazy or Overstimulated? | Monday Advice

0:00Does this sound familiar to you?

0:02You have some sort of significant project that you need to complete.

0:06Like maybe your passport is expired and you have to figure out how to renew it, or you volunteered to update the text on your organization's website and you're not quite sure how to get started.

0:16And you find yourself day after day unable to make progress.

0:21It goes on your list and it stays there untouched.

0:24Now, to the outside world, it might look like you're lazy in the sense that you know that there's something you need to do and you're simply not doing it.

0:33But you know inside that things are not so simple.

0:36You're not just sitting around playing video games.

0:38You're constantly in motion on your devices.

0:40You're sending and receiving messages.

0:42You're checking in on the news.

0:43You're tumbling down potentially productive rabbit holes.

0:47And your days are filled with this little P productivity, but not the big P productive accomplishments that actually matter.

0:54Well, I struggle with this sometimes, and I'm convinced that technology has made this situation much more common and much more worse.