If you try raising one eyebrow or wiggling one ear (assuming you can't already do that), you might find that you're briefly activating lots of little muscles around the target as your body tries to figure out where that's mapped in your brain. Once you get the right muscle, you can relax the other false positives, and eventually just have the single muscle isolated. It's similar in my "brain flow" thing: usually a couple random muscles in my head want to join in, but I can intentionally relax them and keep the "flow" going. A common one is the tensor tympani -- the two "muscles" seem to be closely mapped together. If you can rumble your ears (manually activating the tensor tympani), try initiating a rumble, and then "move" the activation in between your ears, right to your mid-back brain. (Again: I know there's no actual muscle there, so /shrug). Another closely mapped muscle, at least for me, is a small one around/under/behind the ears that has a "face tightening" effect. It's like there are three muscles conceptually mapped to similar brain space: one tightens my ears/eyes/temples, one rumbles my tensor tympani, and one induces a feeling of "flow" down my spine and through my brain.
I'm not the GP you asked, but distilling my own personal organization practices into the alluring "Ten Tiny Tasks" title, here's my take on it:
- Make a list of the 10 tiniest tasks with the least amount of estimated effort you can find or think of that need to be done
- Maybe save task 10 for a super quick prioritizing of the other 9 tasks, or don't because they are tiny tasks, after all
- Complete the 10 tiniest tasks
- Repeat the process until there are no more tasks (of course, there are always more tasks)
And like, tiny. Open terminal to project directory. Opeb browser window/tab to SDK/API index. Shit so easy that you can't help but do them. Repeat until you get to tasks that aren't quite so trivial, and by then, you'll be going.
IME as you approach the limit you can create an infinite number of tasks. The key for me is to pick tasks which balance expedience and bang for buck value, but if you are experiencing intense writers block then I see no problem with a task like "open editor."
Yea. It's like falling down the recursion with a stack size of 5. Do the task. Plan doing the task. Start planning doing the task. Plan starting planning doing the task...
Recursion isn't necessarily the problem per se - it's the sheer number of tasks. When you're at the level of "open terminal to project directory", it takes less time to do it than to write it down, but more importantly, you'll end up creating a 100 of those tiny tasks, and the overhead of keeping them up to date can easily suck all your motivation (and time) dry.
Yes, I have a series of nested systems/methods that are designed to build and maintain momentum. The Ten Tiny Tasks are for overcoming inertia and eliminating the small barriers that keep you from starting. I do the tasks before I have my coffee in the morning.
Everyone else presuming you need a list to keep track of them is missing the point - spontaneous and immediate action with minimal commitment.
> I once started working on something similar, but the goal was to suggest a list of ingredients for me to buy for the week so that I had a good total nutritional values. I don't work on it anymore though.
Cronometer has a feature that does this – it checks to see where you aren't hitting your daily targets for macro/micronutrients and then suggests foods that would allow you to hit those targets. Quite nifty.
Yes, that's what I ended up using, too! The goal for my project was just to build something as a side project (I was experimenting with Deno and Fresh at that time), not necessarily because I couldn't find an existing alternative.
I tracked my intake for 1-2 weeks with Cronometer and it helped me see what kind of minerals and vitamins I might be missing. I mean, these things are "ballpark" only anyways, and I wouldn't have the discipline to track my every meal. But good to get a general idea - kind of like a check-up, just doing it from time to time.
Try a good Magnesium supplement, this will bring down your general anxiety and also regulate heart contractions:
> In the heart, magnesium plays a key role in modulating neuronal excitation, intracardiac conduction, and myocardial contraction by regulating a number of ion transporters, including potassium and calcium channels.
