Play Long Games

Summary: focus on forward motion, don't get distracted/angry over small frictions.

Context: I have things I want to accomplish: My 25-Year Vision/Roles, Meaningful Life

Forces

• daily life feels frustrating to me
  • sometimes as actual blockers to what I want to accomplish: people/systems working against my vision
  • sometimes as basic friction: Entitlement

Anti-Pattern1, Wrong-Solution; Outcomes

• get frustrated/angry, push back/through (cf always be improv-ing)

Anti-Pattern2, Wrong-Solution; Outcomes

• use willpower to squash frustration

Anti-Pattern3, Wrong-Solution; Outcomes

• dis-engage (cf re-engage)

Solution

• have coherent goals/vision for the future, daily/weekly plans for compounding progress
• if an annoyance (like slow-driver) doesn't really block it, then chill out
• if an annoyance is true friction but minorish (stupid mis-directed job meeting), then focus on what your outcome-in-the-moment should be, and don't let other things distract from that
• if people are eating your schedule (Keep Up On Chores), try to re-claim your time with what's more important for you to do (change your organization)
• keep it fun/playful

This covers just part of the nodes in my game-playing-mindset-session