I’ve been flirting around with this idea for a while without actually taking some action, and a recent set of blog posts about these subjects have prompted me to start doing something about it. These and other posts, mostly from a couple of blogs I started reading not so long ago, are giving me ideas on how to break the inertia and start doing instead of just thinking and planning. They’ve shown me some of the obstacles in my way, mostly related to things you can change, instead of things that are out of our control. I spend a lot of time blaming my stagnation on external conditions, when there are lots of things under my own control that I can start changing to be more productive, things like the Internet and e-mail habits, lack of time scheduling, etc.

It’s not an easy task though. It requires discipline, because you can be told what to do and still do nothing, but in that case you have no excuse. This way, you’re at least more conscious that you need to take some responsibility for your life, that you can’t get always away with blaming everything on external conditions out of your control.

By the way, the two blogs I mention are Freestyle Mind and Michael Hyatt‘s personal blog. Not all of what they post is about this subject, and I do not agree with all of what they post about it, but they are great for a start, so I’ll be playing around with some of the ideas and adapt them to my own environment.

Do you know any other useful blogs or sources of information that can help me and others in changing habits, being more productive, being a doer instead of just a planner?