The Quiet Paradox of Knowing: The Curse of Competence and the Struggle to Start
When you've masterfully handled complex operations or solved intricate problems, the struggle with basic maintenance tasks feels almost nonsensical.
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A collection of 4 posts
The Recovery Cycle: Balancing Effort and Rest for Lasting Progress
Recovery isn’t about taking a break—it’s about understanding when to step back so you can move forward with greater strength.
Walking the Middle Path - How to Keep Moving While Searching for Balance
And here's something powerful to consider: your adapted systems, in all their beautiful, disastrous glory, might be exactly what someone else needs to see. In a world full of perfect productivity porn and flawless morning routines, seeing real, lived-in systems can be incredibly liberating.
The Systems Inheritance Problem: Why Creating Systems Is Harder Than Using Them
But personal systems? Those require building from zero. It's like being handed a blank canvas and told to "just get organized" without any template or framework to follow.