Over the past few days I've hit a breaking point, one I've been at before. My caffeine intake has just gotten away from me and I've hit past the point of declining returns. In short, I gotta go off coffee again.
I listened to a lecture from Harvard Biz Review a few months ago that I can't get out of my head, it was titled "Don't manage your time, manage your energy".
The basic thesis is no amount of time management or planning will do you any good if you are constantly over fatigued and run down.
And every so often I hit that point with coffee, then once i go off I feel better, so much better I start up again, first one cup a day, then two, then whatever, slippery slope and I hit a wall.
Which is where I am now.
Anyway, good book: Caffeine Blues, this is the first time I've gone off coffee after reading it, so I think this is the last time, dammit.
(as is my attitude toward alcohol, which I haven't touched for 14 years, this is just my opinion, for me. It is not that I think that nobody else should drink coffee or alcohol, I just know myself and have to face the fact that i can't)
I listened to a lecture from Harvard Biz Review a few months ago that I can't get out of my head, it was titled "Don't manage your time, manage your energy".
The basic thesis is no amount of time management or planning will do you any good if you are constantly over fatigued and run down.
And every so often I hit that point with coffee, then once i go off I feel better, so much better I start up again, first one cup a day, then two, then whatever, slippery slope and I hit a wall.
Which is where I am now.
Anyway, good book: Caffeine Blues, this is the first time I've gone off coffee after reading it, so I think this is the last time, dammit.
(as is my attitude toward alcohol, which I haven't touched for 14 years, this is just my opinion, for me. It is not that I think that nobody else should drink coffee or alcohol, I just know myself and have to face the fact that i can't)
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