Comments on: Ignore this post. Get back to work. http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post Just my life, really. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:19:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=9407 By: Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1359 Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:11:28 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1359 PS Could you tell us what's the best use of your time right now? PS Could you tell us what’s the best use of your time right now?

]]> By: Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1358 Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:44:47 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1358 One of my favorite questions is, "What's the best use of my time right now?" Often the answer is an activity not valued by other people, but it's something I really want to do. And when I immerse myself in it I lose all sense of time and ego...I call it slipping into sacred space. One of my favorite questions is, “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Often the answer is an activity not valued by other people, but it’s something I really want to do. And when I immerse myself in it I lose all sense of time and ego…I call it slipping into sacred space.

]]> By: Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1357 Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:45:03 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1357 It sounds like you're still using the Authority model. Am I missing something? It sounds like you’re still using the Authority model. Am I missing something?

]]> By: Molly Gordon http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1356 Molly Gordon Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:07:00 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1356 I so agree. Should have become a dirty word, and when it connotes an obligation imposed by an external authority (including all those external authorities we've internalized), it's wise to be wary before giving in to the should. But after years of wrestling with this, swinging from compulsive overachievement to define it slackerdom, I've come to distinguish the difference between the external should in the inner mandate. There are things that I must do, if I'm to be honest with myself. I wish I could say that getting this distinction has brought me to productivity nirvana. It hasn't. But this distinction plus spending more time reading and responding to folks like you is inching me toward a more peaceful and (paradoxically?) adventurous way of being. The lesson of the day for me involves another distinction: the difference between surfing/tweeting/blogging for the sake of getting my voice out there and doing the same for the sake of listening to others. I so agree. Should have become a dirty word, and when it connotes an obligation imposed by an external authority (including all those external authorities we’ve internalized), it’s wise to be wary before giving in to the should.

But after years of wrestling with this, swinging from compulsive overachievement to define it slackerdom, I’ve come to distinguish the difference between the external should in the inner mandate. There are things that I must do, if I’m to be honest with myself.

I wish I could say that getting this distinction has brought me to productivity nirvana. It hasn’t. But this distinction plus spending more time reading and responding to folks like you is inching me toward a more peaceful and (paradoxically?) adventurous way of being.

The lesson of the day for me involves another distinction: the difference between surfing/tweeting/blogging for the sake of getting my voice out there and doing the same for the sake of listening to others.

]]> By: the communicatrix http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1355 the communicatrix Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:58:39 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1355 Okay, you know, the workday is long over, even for me. But I had to pop in and remark on the excellence of this photo illustration. It is inspired, Adam, in a way people rarely get right. And you know your little Virgo bud--she groks this shite. Well done, young monk. Well done. Okay, you know, the workday is long over, even for me.

But I had to pop in and remark on the excellence of this photo illustration. It is inspired, Adam, in a way people rarely get right.

And you know your little Virgo bud–she groks this shite.

Well done, young monk. Well done.

]]> By: Anne Kaplan http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1354 Anne Kaplan Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:19:28 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1354 I do love the idea of asking myself, not "What <i>should</i> I be doing?", but "What <i>needs</i> doing now (or today)?" At the same time, there also must be some space for "What do I <i>want or not want</i> to be or do right now -- which may well include procrastination of one form or another. Some of my best work gets done when I'm avoiding doing something else. I do love the idea of asking myself, not “What should I be doing?”, but “What needs doing now (or today)?”

At the same time, there also must be some space for “What do I want or not want to be or do right now — which may well include procrastination of one form or another. Some of my best work gets done when I’m avoiding doing something else.

]]> By: Slade | Shift Your Spirits http://adamkayce.com/446/ignore-this-post#comment-1353 Slade | Shift Your Spirits Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:33:24 +0000 http://monkatwork.com/?p=446#comment-1353 The distinction between SHOULD and NEED -- brilliant! The distinction between SHOULD and NEED — brilliant!

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