Another Sleepless Night, Another Blog

3:20am. It's early. Perhaps not in the way that you would call it early, but I'm not exactly on the same sleep schedule that most people seem to follow.

I sat down at the computer at around midnight with the intention of getting caught up on some work. You see, I was pretty awfully sick for the last three weeks and I fell behind with work. A lot. It's a bit overwhelming going from resting all day to head first cartoon-style running -- full speed. Meep meep.

All this week I've not had a single moment that I had nothing to do yet I've managed to spend an amazing amount of time making lists and organizing in my head -- what shall I do first? How much longer do I have before this has to be finished? What's the best way to go about this? I've created folders on my navigation bar in my browser with all the links I need to get the work done. I've got notepad files open in my taskbar that have all the info I need and those files are saved in precisely named folders on my hard drive. Important emails are starred and task tracking applications are installed on my phone. I'm crazy. When I'm feeling overwhelmed I tend to organize. I blame a book I read when I was a kid, though I can't recall what the book was called now or what it was about, really. I do remember that one section said the best way to teach kids to keep their bedrooms clean was to give everything that goes into the room ever a 'home' -- a place that it specifically belongs. When the bedroom gets messy, the book suggested that you find everything that's out of place and throw it on the freshly made bed. Then, when that's done, take everything from the bed one by one and relocate it to its 'home'. And that's how I cleaned my room every single time -- and still do. It's how I've learned to manage my digital home as well.

But is it working? Well...

The bed's made, the out-of-place stuff is all piled up on the bed, the appropriate playlists are made but... well, this brand new blog should give a great indication of how the I-should-have-this-done project is going.

How do you get things done?*

 

 

*I nearly said 'take care of business' then realized how that sounded.

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