It annoys me that Now TV and Disney don't have a 'remove from continue watching' feature like Netflix.
Like any self-improvement tragic I have a love/hate relationship with compelling yet time-sink / productivity-less media like Netflix but the 'remove from continue watching' feature really appeals to my desire to control my environmental inputs.
My thinking goes something like this; "If I can remove that TV show from my mental to-do list, the incompletion of the 'task' won't nag away at me. I'm lighter. I'm free to do what matters."
Our brain’s capacity to hold information, make decisions, and regulate our behaviour is limited, and when that capacity is overloaded by stress, excessive choice or sustained demand, execution declines and commitment weakens.
Like any biological system seeking homeostatis, we are constantly seeking optimal brain capacity while never quite achieving it. We are either under-stimulated and under-capacity or overstimulated and overcapacity.
Us Driven Achiever Types spend most of our lives overstimulated and overcapacity, therefore the apposite question is, what goal, project or person, do you need to remove from your mental 'continue watching list'?
The personal operating system I use with the ambitious entrepreneurs I help to find the clarity, energy and discipline is, 3-5 goals and 7-9 fundamental habits over 90 days, aligned to a long-term sense of mission. This offers enough challenge and complexity to take you out of your comfort zone and drive growth while avoided overwhelm and stagnation, in pursuit of something meaningful. Interested in upgrading your personal operating system in pursuit of meaning?
