For a certain amount of time, I struggle to write posts on Hive. I used to write a post every second day and now I hardly manage to write two posts per week. I write some posts for my other projects but for my personal account, I really fail to come up with content that I feel is worth writing about.
Keeping focused
At the end of a day, I write down a check-list for the day to come. Like that, I write down what needs to be done. I have to include my professional, familial and my hive project related obligations in this list, which becomes often very long. When I look at his long list in the morning, I tend to start the day with the things that I can cross out fastest. Unfortunately, I always end up with undone tasks that need more brainpower, like creating a post. So I postpone them to the next day. The tasks that need more of my intellectual capacities are the ones that I end up not doing. I need to ask myself whether I'm getting old and lazy? Of course, I don't get any younger and maybe there is some additional laziness creeping in... but I need to find a solution.
Free space for brain intensive tasks
If I have a big tasklist that is composed of activities that require little energy and I manage to do most of them, there is this feeling of accomplishment. Unfortunately, it's an illusionary feeling because I'm just filling my day with tasks that require no creativity and no reflection. The solution is not to create more of these tasks but to reduce them, so that I free space for real intelectual work.
Games are not good for creativity
I realized that my decline in productivity was linked to me starting to play the Splinterforge game. I play it quite a lot but it's pretty repetitive. I need to make more or less the same lineups 20 times a day. I manage to earn some forge tokens like that but it requires a lot of time. Is this the activity that came to challenge my creativity?
Playing games in general doesn't seem to be challenging my brain. Well of course while playing Splinterlands my brain is needed but this has become a more and more depressive activity. When I play the game these days, I always have the feeling that I have become quite a bad player.... Or maybe the bots have simply become too strong.
Taking some hard decisions
When something doesn't end up in my life, I need to change things. I now have the feeling that I need to take make a drastic change so that I can find back my creativity and write more posts.
Under these circumstances, I have taken the decision to stop playing Splinterforge for the moment. Maybe I will play later on, but I need to stop for a while. I also decided to reduce the number of my active Splinterlands decks from 3 to 2. Playing three accounts is simply too much work and I seem not to enjoy it so much these days (probably because I lose too often).
Playing too many games is reducing my productivity
In general, I spend too much time in front of the computer. Often clicking aimlessly around. I can spend hours sending tokens or nft's from one account to another just for feeling to do something useful. In the end, I'm just wasting time. I believe I need to get off the computer on a regular basis so that I can become more productive.
I hope that these changes will reduce the number of my daily „brainless“ tasks and will free some time for creative stuff... I want to produce more posts with quality content.
How do you deal with situations where you have the feeling that you can't concentrate enough to create posts?
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