Re:Sabotaging Success, but to What End?
by joeld42 on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @10:02PM
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yes. It is frustrating to be able to see it happening but persist in the behavior.
I haven't found the fix yet. Things that have helped me are 1) arbitrary deadlines (i.e. it ships on Apr 3 in whatever state it's in vs when it's done, it helps if you can tie this to an external event) 2) bringing on collaborators, and 3) splitting goals into smaller pieces until you do them (i've had to reduce my goals to "press the compile button" at times), and 4) fake tasks, i.e. add a frivolous feature (actually start it) to the schedule and then do everything else, that gives you some psychological buffer to having to call it finished, and then when you are in a good mood, just cut that feature and ship. :)
I haven't found the fix yet. Things that have helped me are 1) arbitrary deadlines (i.e. it ships on Apr 3 in whatever state it's in vs when it's done, it helps if you can tie this to an external event) 2) bringing on collaborators, and 3) splitting goals into smaller pieces until you do them (i've had to reduce my goals to "press the compile button" at times), and 4) fake tasks, i.e. add a frivolous feature (actually start it) to the schedule and then do everything else, that gives you some psychological buffer to having to call it finished, and then when you are in a good mood, just cut that feature and ship. :)
I'd love to hear what works for others