Unoptimized
I spent the whole day planning a journal entry about how I don’t want to optimize myself anymore and then I walked by this at the library and checked it out without a second thought:
So, way to hit my goals?
I’m on this don’t-optimize-yourself kick because I read “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation” by Anne Helen Peterson a couple months ago, and I guess it resonated with me.
I did so much in the last couple of months to optimize my housekeeping habits, in the last year to optimize our finances, and in the last five years to optimize my productivity. I’ve put a lot of focus on dishes and to do lists and reconciling bank accounts and having my phone organized in a specific way so that it’s less of a distraction.
After all of it, I’m burnt out and these attempts at optimization have become the distraction.
The more I give myself things to do and habits to form, the more perfectionism creeps in and highlights everything that isn’t crossed off a list. I’m not sure that I’m any better for it.