Long ago, I set up an account on Remember The Milk . I did absolutely nothing with it.
That was probably a mistake. You see, I work so much better when I have self-set goals. It worked when I was losing weight, it worked during many web sites I worked on in the past, and recently it’s worked like a charm for NaNoWriMo.
It doesn’t work well when someone is cracking a whip. That’s why I was so slack with homework in high school. I can’t stand people trying to control me. So, I kind of act passive aggressive and either do a bad job, or I don’t do it at all. Now, this is different at work, because I want money and I know that I need to do things to have money. But when there is no tangible and impending motivational factor, such as being at school or TAFE, I just slack off and do what I feel like. Procrastination to its extreme.
When I have my own goals, my own motivation and my own rewards, that’s when I do work. And hell, I enjoy it too.
So that’s why I’m making a to-do list on Remember the Milk.
Tags: ambition, goals, lists, motivation, NaNoWriMo, organisation, productivity, remember the milk
