I've had a productive weekend! I've recorded and edited two Atari A to Z videos, two Atari ST A to Z videos, two Atari A to Z Flashback videos, two episodes of Final Fantasy Marathon and two episodes of the new short;Play series. Well, okay, as I type this I have the last Final Fantasy Marathon video to finish off (it's currently matching audio to video, so rather than sit around waiting for it I thought I'd write this instead) but I'm nearly done!
It feels good to get stuff done. Or at least it does when the stuff you get done is the stuff you want to get done. Compare to the busywork of your average day job (not just mine) which tends to hold little in the way of personal satisfaction unless you've been very lucky enough to land in a vocation that matches your interests… and, yeah.
I guess the key is trying to get yourself in the mindset of feeling that sort of satisfaction from your daily tasks and the things you don't really want to do. Some form of positive reinforcement is probably key there; "if I finish [x] I'll reward myself with [y]". This is, of course, a remarkably simplistic way of looking at this sort of thing, but it turns out that in a lot of cases we human beings are remarkably simplistic creatures of habit, and sometimes all it takes to motivate you a bit is the knowledge that a packet of Wine Gums or a bit of time to [censored] is waiting for you. Maybe. Possibly.
I do know that I already don't feel like getting up tomorrow morning. But at least it's only one day of work, then two days completely to myself (at home, obviously) to enjoy my birthday celebrations (by myself… well, with my wife and cats, obviously) and whatever the hell I want to do for those 48 hours.
But ah well. Right now it is Sunday night (well, early Monday morning) and I should probably get to sleep. After this video's done…
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