Getting through the boring bits

Sometimes I feel bored by my work. It can be tedious, trying to figure out the way to connect the dots between gold hits in drillholes. Sometimes it just seems too hard to do, and I look to the internet for something interesting to read.

After starting the WIMWA mentoring program I was feeling all pumped about my career and getting to the point where I can start an exploration company. Then I did the Gunnas writing class and started transcribing my diaries from when I lived in Iceland and I sort of lost interest in work and working on my goals. I was supposed to come up with a list of topics for discussion for my mentoring sessions and email them to my mentor before the last session but I couldn't get interested in doing it and when I emailed to confirm our meeting with her I told her I hadn't done it and would like to do it together in our next mentoring session. But then it turned out she couldn't meet up with me the next day as she was over east taking care of some family stuff. I was relieved and replied that I would be more organised for our next meeting.

Now it's Monday and our meeting is Friday and I still haven't done anything, over a week later. I've been feeling like the writing class ruined me a bit for work but in reality, this happens for all big resource models I've worked on. You get bored but there's so much to do, and time is of the essence, but it's hard and slow going and the lack of lots of achievement makes you work even slower.

In the Gunnas masterclass, Catherine said the same thing about writing. Everyone gets bored, doubts themselves, procrastinates and gets distracted by the internet. You just have to figure out ways to incentivise your work for yourself.

• Turn off the internet with apps if you have to.
• Say you're just going to do 10 minutes, and do the 10 minutes then reward yourself with something.
• Tell yourself you can have whatever it is you are doing instead of your work until you've done this amount of work.
• Just get it down on paper.
• Just do it and then fix it up.

Why do we write? Because it makes us feel better. I've motivated myself now. Just gotta do it!