Blank page syndrome...

[johnpalmer]

To do:

1) Go bikeriding; you went jogging yesterday and need to rest your knee from impact today

2) Forget that you'll never find any way to prove that you're a competent programmer, so you won't find a programming job, so when you finally lose your job, you'll be unable to find anything because you've wasted all your time trying to study programming

3) Forget about all marriage problems

4) Decide that the answer to 2), above, is to study some networking mixed in with the programming, and remember that you know more about how to learn about programming than you did the last few times you decided to try to become a programmer

5) Decide that the answer to 3) above, doesn't exist at all while depressed, so you need to change your mood before trying to do anything about it.

Comments

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

(Posting this after reading the follow-up explanatory post)

The only way I know how to cope with blank page syndrome is to do what someone from a list I'm on calls "the next right thing". Just keep doing the next right thing. From the list you've posted, personally I'd say exercise is the first right thing - and all else will follow from that - if only because exercise frees your mind to think of everything else, and the next right thing will follow from that. Doing the next right thing, and focusing only on that also helps scheduling. If you can't talk to person A at this particular moment, then dealing with the issues involving person A cannot be the next right thing.

Sounds a little trite maybe, but it sure helps me.

Hug

[kightp.livejournal.com]

This is really wise advice, jw. I could do with a bit of attention to "next right things" myself. Thanks!