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Lately, I've been making some changes in my life. Once upon a time, I worked as a project manager and project planner. After several years of upper management having ignored the plans despite their accuracy, my love of planning had become filled with disdain and I began winging things in my personal life. It wasn't working.
I have a todo list in Kanbanflow. It's so large and full of things that I'm not near to accomplishing (I swear I have at least a decade worth of story ideas), that it has become almost useless in terms of goal achievement. I will reorganize it at some point to make it useful again, but I recently started using an analog planner. I plan one week, sometimes only half the week, at a time. I don't always accomplish the things I want to in a week, but I'm getting more done than I was while I was winging it.
One of my major goals is simplistic: Reclaim my routine. Working at home has made me really lax in terms of how long I sleep, what time I shower, how many meals I eat in a day, etc. So far, I've been doing terribly at it. Some days I get up at a reasonable time and get about 75% of my tasks completed. Others I struggle to just get food done.
One of my other major tasks is to get all my dishes clean. I feel like it's pathetic that it has been so hard to get this one thing done, but something always comes up or my energy is sapped and I just can't. The last couple of days, since there has been more sunshine, I've been doing better. Damn winter blues!
French is hit and miss. Some days I feel like I'm really getting somewhere and understand a lot. Others, I might as well be looking at Greek. Learning is often like that though. I know I just need to apply myself a little more.
Some days I wonder if my legs will ever be able to take the full length of class time without making me incredibly sore for several days, but this is the way it is every year at this time. I'm usually fine by the spring seminar that lasts several days. I should buy that ice skating pass because it's cheap and will help me whip my legs into shape. Perhaps I'll get it today, after I get a police record check done for volunteering at the library.
And there's my writing. It seems that when I have a deadline, I have trouble writing anything at all. No deadline? Writing is fun and I'm shocked when I suddenly finish a project. Clearly planning some things doesn't work for me.
My Alphasmart Neo2 arrived yesterday and I love it. It's such a simple tool. I can work onto upto 8 files at once. Without all the distractions of a laptop with bells and whistles, I can just write and I don't have to copy from paper to my computer afterwards. Because I can only see a couple of sentences at a time on the screen, I don't get mired in rereading text. I seem to have started a YA Sci-Fi tale, but I have other projects to finish first! Naughty fingers running away on the keyboard...
I haven't found a job yet and EI hasn't started paying me. I'm going to hopefully get that straightened out today. Several exciting opportunities are available right now. I'm excited to see which come to fruition. Time will tell. Much to do today.
Salut,
R~
Image created using Bit Strips.[/caption]Lately, I've been making some changes in my life. Once upon a time, I worked as a project manager and project planner. After several years of upper management having ignored the plans despite their accuracy, my love of planning had become filled with disdain and I began winging things in my personal life. It wasn't working.
I have a todo list in Kanbanflow. It's so large and full of things that I'm not near to accomplishing (I swear I have at least a decade worth of story ideas), that it has become almost useless in terms of goal achievement. I will reorganize it at some point to make it useful again, but I recently started using an analog planner. I plan one week, sometimes only half the week, at a time. I don't always accomplish the things I want to in a week, but I'm getting more done than I was while I was winging it.
One of my major goals is simplistic: Reclaim my routine. Working at home has made me really lax in terms of how long I sleep, what time I shower, how many meals I eat in a day, etc. So far, I've been doing terribly at it. Some days I get up at a reasonable time and get about 75% of my tasks completed. Others I struggle to just get food done.
One of my other major tasks is to get all my dishes clean. I feel like it's pathetic that it has been so hard to get this one thing done, but something always comes up or my energy is sapped and I just can't. The last couple of days, since there has been more sunshine, I've been doing better. Damn winter blues!
French is hit and miss. Some days I feel like I'm really getting somewhere and understand a lot. Others, I might as well be looking at Greek. Learning is often like that though. I know I just need to apply myself a little more.
Some days I wonder if my legs will ever be able to take the full length of class time without making me incredibly sore for several days, but this is the way it is every year at this time. I'm usually fine by the spring seminar that lasts several days. I should buy that ice skating pass because it's cheap and will help me whip my legs into shape. Perhaps I'll get it today, after I get a police record check done for volunteering at the library.
And there's my writing. It seems that when I have a deadline, I have trouble writing anything at all. No deadline? Writing is fun and I'm shocked when I suddenly finish a project. Clearly planning some things doesn't work for me.
My Alphasmart Neo2 arrived yesterday and I love it. It's such a simple tool. I can work onto upto 8 files at once. Without all the distractions of a laptop with bells and whistles, I can just write and I don't have to copy from paper to my computer afterwards. Because I can only see a couple of sentences at a time on the screen, I don't get mired in rereading text. I seem to have started a YA Sci-Fi tale, but I have other projects to finish first! Naughty fingers running away on the keyboard...
I haven't found a job yet and EI hasn't started paying me. I'm going to hopefully get that straightened out today. Several exciting opportunities are available right now. I'm excited to see which come to fruition. Time will tell. Much to do today.
Salut,
R~