I'm listening to a fantastic book, "the willpower instinct" by Kelly McGonigal. She's a Stanford university professor and collects a lot of useful research about willpower, much of which I hadn't encountered elsewhere, and packages it in an easy to read and implement way. Highly recommended if you are interested in having more willpower. (And who wouldn't like that?)
The weather really feels like fall now, though it's still getting warm by the afternoon.
There is SO MUCH to do. The surfaces of the house are getting covered in more and more clutter, a visual representation of not having the time to do basic maintenance activities. Normal grad school, I suppose.
I'm convinced that just 'doing it faster' is not the solution to having too much to do. I think more likely it is a mixture of doing less stuff, prioritizing important stuff, and doing stuff with more focus. Maybe also time-limiting stuff to make sure I'm doing it efficiently. However, the maintained focus and awareness need for changing how I do things is also another energy (and somewhat time) input, so it's the catch 22 of needing to put in MORE time and energy to fix the problem of not having enough time and energy.
The cats are getting cuddly again, muddying the waters of if they really love us or just find us convenient sources of warmth.
It's wood gathering season. Suzannah has her eyes on some fallen tree wood for our wood burning fireplace, and may enlist me to help cut it up with the promise of getting to use a chainsaw.
OK, time to get back to work. Hope you are all well and sending my love.
-Isaac
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