Monday, December 10, 2007

being "in the thing" while being "on top of things"

my friend karthik wrote about the impulse to stay on top of things . looking again at my workload levelling, i am finding that once i determine what i want to do in a day and allot timeslots for them, i am very relaxed, and very much "in the thing" and a lot of stuff got done.

so, we may need to be a bit of both - on top and in it...but not at the same time, that's all :)

the most difficult thing was the "planning what to do" part. afterwards, once an activity was started, it was quite easy to forget about the rest.. btw, i am finding it a bit difficult to sustain.

i know that navneet will say, even without doing any planning, spontaneously, we can get into being "in the thing" and that will also give peace.. which is true...

maybe i am just a bit too obsessed with perfection!

1 comment:

Navneet Bhushan said...

Since you can predict what I will say - indicates how monotonically linear my line of thought has been :)

To be in and at the top at the same time is sort of Physical Contradiction that TRIZ talks about - your solutaion to separate the two in time is also not unnatural solution

One can also separate the two in space and specific conditions besides time - which is saying Look at the specific set of things first before getting in or on top and based on certain conditions get in or on top.

Well having said that, I am on top of things only when I am in the things - thats the problem I have ... :)