In order to achieve a calmer, more balanced, and more optimized life, in which we can be a rockstar in both the office and in our own lives, we need to seek change at four different levels:
- Mindset and Beliefs. To work woke, we need to start by developing the right mindset and beliefs about how work features in our lives, and how important the rest of our lives are in relation to work. We can’t help ourselves if we believe that work must be a constant state of suffering and it must engulf our lives entirely. Believing that the new normal exists is a start. For each little experiment and method we try to balance out our lives and to achieve calm, we must fundamentally want and believe that we can optimize both work and play.
- Assumptions. To work woke, we will need to discard some assumptions we’ve held constant all along. Meetings don’t need to be useless. Vacation does not need to be a guilty pleasure that we feel bad about.
- Habits. Bad habits in fitness and spending get worse, compound, and ruin everything down the line. The flip side is that good habits also compound. This website will address the science of building habits, and will share positive habits to optimize our lives one step at a time.
- Methods. These will be actual tips, tricks, and experiments to slowly claim time, autonomy, and purpose back from bad systems and people who’ve stolen it from you. Timeboxing is one of them.
This website will be a collection of articles that will break down problems and will share possible solutions on how to seek change on each of these four levels.
It is entirely possible to do great work and not exhaust yourself and crowd out the rest of your life in the process. Let’s get there.
Working Woke 