Follow Your Instincts

I did something today that was probably ill-advised yet I found it incredibly liberating.

I’ve been using this platform called Notion to build a number of things.

I keep my university notes, assignment preparations and readings notes there.

That’s one database, but not the one I’m concerned with here.

I’m talking about my Digital Headspace.

It’s where I keep notes to articles, events, books, podcasts.

Where I keep my graduate scheme applications.

Where I dump my ideas, thoughts and questions.

However the first of those three I mentioned was organised in a fairly clunky way.

It created a number of barriers to me actually inputting any information.

As I want to develop the personal knowledge management more succinctly and to learn more, and feel like learning more, this needed to be fixed.

So I spent four hours streamlining and populating it from the previous system.

I felt so much better afterwards.

I don’t think I would’ve been able to devote this time without having completed all my readings for university for the next week.

I aim to get on-top and ahead of it in the weeks ahead.

Give me time to focus on more important and pressing matters (in terms of time to be devoted, not actual importance).

I normally would’ve ignored this instinct and carried on.

But here, I followed it.

It will help me in the future.

Abundant not scarce.

It’s a lesson I think I’ll be glad I learned.

Social media notifications being off means that I forget I even have it.

I check it periodically, but not often.

Today I’ve only spent 37 minutes on social media, compared to Wednesday when I spent 3 hours 18 mins.

It’s quite the change.

And it’s one to stay.

Follow Your Instincts