Last updated on April 4th, 2021 at 11:06 am
After yesterday’s rant, someone asked what I’ll do about my problems. I was able to identify them clearly enough, but if I don’t figure out how to tackle all the crap, guess what? It’s not going anywhere.
But I’ve already started making progress. The first steps weren’t too bad:
The Battle Plan.
- I split that massive pile on my desk up into three piles that were easier to sort out: Use Now, Read Later and Junk (that last pile wound up in the recycling bin)
- the Use Now stuff is the stuff that I’ll carry with me and try to use up as quickly as possible; I actually wrote this blog entry using one of the spare notebooks I came across to get all of my ideas sorted out!
- I finally accepted that I’m no Superman and that I can’t possibly do everything. So now I’m working on making my life easier instead of trying to be the best at anything I touch. That means using WordPress to structure my sites because it’s just easier and less time-consuming than doing it all by hand. Or asking for guest posts from friends, family and readers. Or publishing the notes, ideas and everything I’ve kept secret for so long since someone else might do better with them than I can right now. It’s not easy, reprogramming my brain—but if I want to have a brain left to work with, it needs to be done.
But regardless of what I intend to do, what I can actually do is an entirely different story. There are some realities I need to face:
The Realities that 2011 Casey Palmer Has to Face.
- I’m married now. My time is not just my time anymore. I need to make sure I give Sarah what she needs while also not destroying my dreams and forgetting what it is I set out to accomplish. This can be hard to remember when cuddle time conflicts with crunch time to get the daily blog post up.
- I gots to work. Aside from all the stuff I want to accomplish in my SPARE time, I have a full-time job with enough responsibility to keep me pretty busy! I’m juggling daily trying to do all the work in my life—trying to make all of it easier is the key to keeping sane.
- I suck at time management. I’m distracted REALLY easily. I can set deadlines and put together plans for myself like anyone else, but all it takes is an interesting link on Facebook or a funny one-liner on Twitter to set me adrift for the night.
All said, though, things are progressing. I can see some of the floor or my office again; I’m starting to get all the pieces in the right places to get rid of all the clutter—both digital and physical—and hopefully by the end of this year, I’ll have created some projects and project teams that are really going somewhere. Until then, it’s step by step and day by day…
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