calypte

Have been struck by the snuffles doing the rounds in the office at the moment, which isn’t helping motivation any: I want to snuggle down and sleep til it’s gone! So, while current priorities really have to be about keep healthy, I’m also feeling that there’s a mini pile-up beyond that.

• C#
• tai-chi
• plenty of healthiness!

• doctor stuff to sort out – ear, friday, etc
• cooking: big bnut to use, so thinking a weekend batch session, of veg tagine, bnut curry, maybe a lasagne? And chilli.
• course next week – must get organised!
• energy too low right now, but having worked out C# ‘schedule’, need to bring in netApps and portfolio (ffs!) sharpish!!
• career planning – soon, but head needs to be elsewhere now, regardless of the happy-excitement of all my soon-to-be-ex-colleagues off to pastures new!
• likewise: hurumph at the new dating stuff going on with my formerly-single-compatriots. Tch. Too much work to it right now! o_O
• creativity stuff is being ignored – sort of okay-ish about that for now; everything else feels more urgent and important in the short term
• fitness has to wait out the snuffles, alas – but it might be helpful in preventing the next lot! o_O
• would be excellent to finish the kitchen cupboard sorting already and tick off that goal!!
• mortgage to sort out

Overall, then, I am currently in a mindset of “let’s focus on the study stuff with ever-closer-creeping-deadlines and just get it out of the way – and then move on!” I tend to get bored halfway through that (maybe need to set myself some better motivational rewards!), but would be good to get shifting while I can – damn this cold and need for sleep!! Anyway. Is life, and is busy, and there are worse things! :)

But at least I’ve found the least-worst pic of the Hoff I could stand! ;)

Ooh, here’s a tough question: do I set this for tomorrow, or the whole weekend? If it’s the latter, do I then choose six priorities? Hmm.

Having a rough plan for the whole weekend is what I’ve more or less been doing (less structured-ly) and it tends not to work. For instance, if my six things have three ‘nice’ and three work, too easy to feel productive for doing the nicer stuff first!

But still, I could pre-plan but with specific split out tasks for the Sat/Sun, thus ensuring I did everything I wanted over the two days? Or do I just start with tomorrow and see how it goes?!

• C# coursework
• C# book chapter
• tidy cards stuff
• maybe make a card?
• watch GotA / download next one!
• watch a movie from stack
• eat healthily – esp fruit needing used!
• exercise
• maybe cinema?
• write 500 words
• review?
• laundry
• pay cc / email re GP

• admin – paperwork, emails, etc
• housework – laundry and tidying
• chores – admin plus housework!
• healthfulness™ – eating, exercise and probably pampering and sleep
• C# (learning)
• creativity – writing and cards
• passive and/or at home time wasters: watching stuff, ‘pooter time [let’s face it: these are NOT priorities and likely to happen anyway!]
• going out (cinema)

1. C# – need and want to get moving on this!
2. looking after me: meditation, eat well, move some, get enough sleep – sort of a catch-all, but putting that theme in my mind is important and hopefully not too broad
3. plough through some of the weekend chores!

Tempting to say “oh – more time at the weekend, can/should have more priorities” in order to get in both chores and creativity. But… I’m talking priorities, not just a list of want-to-dos. THAT I think is the difference to this approach! In which case, while yes it is important to me to get some creativity going on, it’s not really a ‘must-do’ priority – there’s nothing stopping me doing it anyway!

I’ll see how that goes. Chances are Sunday is going to look very similar, but who knows – maybe I’ll have finished the chores and move creativity onto the list, or decide it’s important (and the weather is enabling!) to go out. Now that I’ve gone through this process, I’m far preferring the idea of keeping the planning to just one day ahead – Sunday now has more room to be flexible depending on how tomorrow goes, and mood.

So there we go: a long a tortuous look into how my mind works in reasoning out a plan, and how complicated I can make these things! ;)