An Odds and Ends Day
This morning began with a list of things to do. There were business things, and house things, and family things, and Sandra things. Many of the things on the list were important, but none of them were particularly urgent. This resulted in a sort of paralysis because choosing one thing to do delayed the other things which were of equal urgency. There was potential for this to be an extremely unproductive day. That would be bad news because delaying important things transforms them into urgent important things and then life is all stressy. I’m ready for a break from stressy. So I grabbed my timer clock and set it for one hour. For one hour I did only house things. I did not let business things distract me and I was excused from worrying about them. In that one hour I cooked breakfast, cleaned up the kitchen, and started the laundry. Then I re-set the timer and spent an hour on business things. Sometimes finishing up a task took a little more than an hour, but the key is that I had a solid break point. At each break, I stopped to reconsider what should come next to make today properly balanced. A well balanced day is like a well balanced diet, it has all the major food groups including a little bit of treat. The timer reminded me to switch off. The result has been a very good day where I finished up lots of odds and ends that have been left dangling for a long time. I need to remember that timers are my friends.