"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than the next, moves slowly, over periods of years from one part of the earth to another." -Paul Bowles
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
Cracking a mental block
I have been sitting in front of the computer for the last three days avoiding working on a presentation I have to give next week. It's been driving me nuts. Was just having a serious mental block towards the project itself. It includes a lot of marketing models that I find a have a hard time with, as they require some kind of brain functioning that just stops me in my tracks. So, last night (and this is cheesy) I took a post-it note, wrote "Just Do It!" and stuck it to my desk. I spent part of this morning procrastinating, but just started on it again now. I did have quite a bit of background work done, so it shouldn't be too hard. I find it very difficult to put a lot of work into projects here and only get mediocre grades back. The reward doesn't seem to equal the effort, and I'm not sure if it can just be put down to this being an entirely new subject area and way of researching than I'm used to or what. Anyhoo, back to...Tourism Australia.
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Yep, got 1/2 the project done so far. Just made myself start. As you say StrawberryAnne (who will have to clue me in on who you might be, if you feel like it?)sometimes you do have to just make yourself do it, and when you start you can break the block. Thanks for the suggestion. It's still a difficult project for me, but it is being completed
In two months, the real difficulty will begin...the dissertation;)
Thanks:) Doh, I should have known that was you from the name;)
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