Constraints are Your Friend
I find that I have trouble setting goals and sticking to them. My brain isn't wired that way. It's easy to have a lofty goal and then let it loom over my head.
In a moment of introspection I thought about potentially altering my method away from goal oriented to something without a destination and tailored more to behavior modification.
This is where I discovered setting constraints. Constraints sound like limitation, and in some capacity it is. However it's not necessarily to limit you as an individual.
Constraints are guardrails for yourself. Protecting you from venturing out too far. Cave divers use guide lines to pull themselves back up in the case of an emergency. Yes this limits where they can go, but you won't find any cave diver (that's alive) that will complain about it.
Constraints allow you to modify your behavior to better fit the outcome you desire. This works in technology extremely well. Rather than jumping between distros, programming languages, or tool sets; constraints will force you to master the tools that can do the work that you often miss due to shiny object syndrome.
One example that I'm seeing with great success is my browser. When I'm in research mode, I have a tendency of pressing CMD + t and open too many tabs. Now I use an extension that limits me to 5 browser tabs, this seems like a drastic change, but it has helped me stay focused on what I want to achieve at any given moment and be much more mindful of the resources I want to use.
I'm extending this further to see how I can far I can take these constraints, I believe with enough of them, I can operate in all the domains with minimal resistance.
What if I blast out a blog article in no more than an hour? Minimal editing, but gets the point across. Are you going to remember my grammar? nah but you'll remember the message.
What if I only give myself a day to record and edit a YouTube video?
Perfectionism means the death of creativity and action.
What good is great when it's only shown once a year. I'm striving for just good, more often.
love ya,
Tim