Attitude, productivity, real life

I have been working on how best to approach life. I suspect that there are many seductive habits of both thought and action that trap people in suboptimal ruts. I have certainly made some painful discoveries myself along such lines.

( life in the real world is not simple and happy )

( I nonetheless intend to achieve more than despair )

In short, I need to improve the degree to which I identify the right thing to do, especially in my free time, and just go ahead and do it. It will be an incremental process but I fear the alternative of letting my life drift on as it currently is.

Getting more done when alone

mst3kmoxie kindly braved Lidl today while I remained at home. Being alone works rather well far me. Sure, I relax, catch up a bit with e-mail or whatever, but before long I become restless and productive: I get my thoughts in order then start to act usefully. I wasn't initially sure what to do but knew there was some laundry to be sorted so I worked on that while I thought further.

The puzzling thing is that when my family are around they don't much impede me, it's my fault that I'm much less productive in their presence. Often they don't have much of a plan and that means I can't plan around them and I end up waiting to see what they do and, as I like to interact with my family, I try to remain socially available to them instead of away ignoring them. Really, the only thing I have to watch out for is, when they turn the television on, I can easily get sucked into watching a show that I'd otherwise have avoided.

This is another thing I need to fix: I need to be more ready to just go and do my own thing, imagining what I would be doing were they not here, comforting myself in making it clear to them that they can interrupt and involve me whenever they wish.