The Technopath Way: Productivity through tech for nonprofits How to stop avoiding everything
Feb 3, 2023
22:57
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Do you look around at everything you need to do - household chores, professional tasks, learning objectives - and just throw your hands up in the air instead of get down to business? It turns out most of us are in this boat at least some of the time. You know there are many things to accomplish but you somehow can’t quite get started. Maybe it feels overwhelming thinking about everything to be done, or there’s so many steps you’re not sure where to start. I recently came across a term that helped me understand these feelings in myself and put a name to what had been going on - Demand Avoidance.
Demand Avoidance is rooted in anxiety which is often made worse by...... you guessed it - overwhelm.
Today I am talking with Allyson Kennett about the things we are avoiding and ways we can break ourselves out of the inertia and move ourselves forward.
Quick Tips to Break the Inertia:
- Know when to cut your loses with a piece of technology and move on
- Even if you don't think you'll like a piece of technology, give it a try and push yourself a little bit outside your comfort zone
- Ask for help. Even if you feel like a tech-whiz there will always be some things you're better at than others.
* Productivity Tech only works if you actually use it so don’t just pick what everyone else is saying they do, test drive the tool to see if it truly makes sense for you
* Know your own weaknesses and choose tech tools that help bolster you in those areas
-There’s benefits to doing A/B testing
-Take things one step at a time and start small
-Figure out what you want to measure and start there
Do you look around at everything you need to do - household chores, professional tasks, learning objectives - and just throw your hands up in the air instead of get down to business? It turns out most of us are in this boat at least some of the time. You know there are many things to accomplish but you somehow can’t quite get started. Maybe it feels overwhelming thinking about everything to be done, or there’s so many steps you’re not sure where to start. I recently came across a term that helped me understand these feelings in myself and put a name to what had been going on - Demand Avoidance.
Demand Avoidance is rooted in anxiety which is often made worse by...... you guessed it - overwhelm.
Today I am talking with Allyson Kennett about the things we are avoiding and ways we can break ourselves out of the inertia and move ourselves forward.
Quick Tips to Break the Inertia:
- Start small, you’ll only overwhelm yourself more if you try to change everything at once
- Form small habits, one or two at a time to build your consistency and truly make lasting change
- Just grab the next thing you see that you need to do, and do it. Even if it’s out of order. Grab the plate sitting next to you on the table and put it in the dishwasher, that act will give you the momentum to open up Trailhead and do 10 minutes, which leads to a break through in a work task you’ve been stuck on.
- Know when to cut your loses with a piece of technology and move on
- Even if you don't think you'll like a piece of technology, give it a try and push yourself a little bit outside your comfort zone
- Ask for help. Even if you feel like a tech-whiz there will always be some things you're better at than others.
* Productivity Tech only works if you actually use it so don’t just pick what everyone else is saying they do, test drive the tool to see if it truly makes sense for you
* Know your own weaknesses and choose tech tools that help bolster you in those areas
-There’s benefits to doing A/B testing
-Take things one step at a time and start small
-Figure out what you want to measure and start there