# I feel like I've been searching for this for ages!

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**Category:** Newbee\
**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-feel-like-ive-been-searching-for-this-for-ages/11837 "2024-08-02T17:46:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![lambo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/lambo/32/5451_2.png) [@lambo](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lambo)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-feel-like-ive-been-searching-for-this-for-ages/11837/1 "2024-08-02T17:46:44Z")

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So glad I’ve found this tool. Hard to believe I’ve been using it for a week and a half now, it feels like a few days ago.

I’ve tried so. many. things. GTD, productivity coaches, apps, systems, etc.

I think once I reached a certain level of financial / career independence, 2 things happened:

- Big milestones (promotions / startup success) become several years apart, so I can’t sprint towards them in the same way
- In absence of that, my productivity has been based on “force / anxiety” – which doesn’t work anymore, because (A) I can quit my job / the workforce, and (B) I have learned how to manage the effects of anxiety

But I still _want_ to be able to progress and keep pushing forward, it’s just hard to _entrain_ myself to do that day-to-day.

This whole concept of “spread out the urgency” is amazing. I always wanted it but couldn’t figure it out.

It’s like having your cake and eating it too.

It’s so obviously right – micro-urgency. You get the lack of stress of the slow-times without the panic near the end and/or the negative consequences of slipping dates.

And at the same time, the pressure automatically shifts up to the right level to make you give a shit.

It’s minimally necessary stress – which makes me not want to kind of fight / get out of it, because I _know_ it’s logically the minimum amount of stress.

It’s crazy. Feels like it breaks some law of the universe.

And there’s an auto-dialer too? It’s like a whole new way to work. Just dump your tasks into the hopper, and blindly work away, no spreadsheets or meta-pacing necessary.

I love it!

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**Author:** ![clivemeister](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/clivemeister/32/2034_2.png) [@clivemeister](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/clivemeister)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-feel-like-ive-been-searching-for-this-for-ages/11837/2 "2024-08-02T21:02:44Z")

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> [@lambo](#):
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> It’s minimally necessary stress – which makes me not want to kind of fight / get out of it, because I _know_ it’s logically the minimum amount of stress.

That is the _perfect_ description of Beeminder - “minimum necessary stress”! You nailed it in one 🙂