I lost my natural “Life Tempo” without realizing it
Hi everyone,
I want to share my story with self-discipline how I managed to find a way to put words on a problem I had.
For a few years, I tried a lot of traditional disciplined methods:
Sleep tracking, morning routines, meditation, productivity systems, calories, deep work, dopamine detox, deleting apps...
And honestly, a lot of it worked… temporarily.
I’d enter these phases where I felt incredibly productive; focused, healthy, disciplined, motivated.
But eventually I’d always crash into the opposite state; doomscrolling, mental exhaustion, zero motivation, avoiding people, doing absolutely nothing.
Then I’d rebuild another system and repeat the cycle again.
At some point I realized my life felt less like a stable rhythm and more like constantly jumping between extremes.
I figured that the main problem was that I needed both: being "overproductive" and enjoying myself.
I thought the term "Life Tempo" was kind of apporpriate.
The issue was that, rather than being non productive or too productive, the balance between the two is the key.