Focus diaries, March 2026
The two most valuable skills to work on if you want real change: getting back on the horse and doing nothing.
Right after writing the article “Mastering dopamine and seasonal productivity to embrace winter”, I actually had a severe dopamine chasing crisis. Like if writing about it had given me the strength to resist and suddenly, for some days, I had lost that capacity.
At the same time, I finished a contract at a childhood dream job that gave me meaningful human connection during hard days, so I assume altogether it overwhelmed me.
But something happened: I felt like this time I had the tools to “get back on the horse”, quite easily.
Mastering dopamine and seasonal productivity to embrace winter
Creating gentle dopamine-supporting systems when winter lowers stimulation and our modern world doesn’t.
Let me guess: it is winter and after a long day of work you feel invaded by a need of comfort, and not the best one: greasy and sweet food, the emptiest tv show and surely some doom scrolling to sedate or escape your exhausted reality. You may be a victim of your own dopaminergic system.
A massive perfectionism crisis
I’ve been an organisation coach for years now but still, I think I have been, as I’ve heard in a recent interview: “Sacrifying IMPORTANT over URGENT” for six months (for my whole life actually).
I made the decision six months ago to pause all my projects and focus on one only (helping people with organisation and clarity). At the time I was walking my cat with flip flops in the middle of a green forest and now I have 1000 layers of clothes and trees have no leaves.
It took me six months. Even if I was CONVINCED that that’s what I was meant to do because I love doing it, because I am good at it, because my expertise goes with it, because I have massive energy issues (I have narcolepsy) and I was going in and out of every sessions full and refilled with energy.
So why did it take me so long to actually do it?