Every now and again, I realise, I can drift off purpose. I have a tendency to sprawl, scatter and get distracted. My effectiveness begins to fail. I start too many things and feel unproductive in all of them. So, every now and a again, I have to gather myself up and reset myself. Hone dowd. It makes my n the amount of things I am attempting to do, and make decisions about which ones are more important.
Luckily, my day job has taught me exactly how to get back in the saddle again.
First I clear the decks. I go through everything, every corner of my life. and write down everything i have to do, or want to do. I then decide which are current projects and which are going to go on the back burner for the time being. I tend to have a LOT of ideas, so my back burner list is full of stuff. (Its useful because it is often a list of inspiring things to do, and I regularly check it to see if there is anyway I can bring some more of those things into my life)
So then, I work out what is the next single thing I can physically do to get all of those current projects rolling, and I write those things down. And I am specific. Then I can charge through a whole load of stuff that is bugging me and get it out the way. Its amazing what you can clear when you set your mind to it. And its such a good feeling!
And then each day, I look at my lists, and my projects and I look at my calendar to see if there is anything i have booked in, or is timely for me to do. And I make another decision about what is most important to do today.
So at the moment, each day I am doing my yoga homework first thing. This is good because it is 25 minutes of meditation plus a write up of it. (all going well, though sitting still for that length of time is tricky!) So not only is it done, but its a GREAT way to start the day.
Then today, most important is to finish my portrait commissions.
After that some admin stuff needs doing. But FIRST. Portraits. (OK after writing this!)
See ya later!! Miss ON IT here (oh I do love my lists!)
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