Boring!

What bores you?

I love hyper focus. I mean the place my mind goes is my safe space.

BUT

And this is quite a but.

If I have a project that goes on too long I loose the hyper focus. I loose the safe space and I drift. I find something else and then, zap, my brain is there and I have stopped the first project. Of course there is a problem with that… I write books and books take a long time.

A really long time.

So, here is the conundrum. The fact I write is because I love hyper focus but it can also stop me from finishing everything. What I have to do is section bit off, create sub-headings and new stories within books. Otherwise I get bored.

Very bored.

Even with the PhD I have had to cut things up into projects, small stuff that I can do before my hyper focus slips. Most of the time it works although I had terrible trouble with lockdown. There I found that the restrictions felt overpowering and I was fighting boredom all the time.

Now we are living more freely I am back to being able to keep every project refreshed and new, even the PhD which is into it’s fourth year. Hopefully I can keep the boredom at bay and get it finished by the middle of summer.

No boredom allowed.