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My Time - Time Management
This doesn’t seem to gain a lot but for me the change is dramatic. However, I explained that these odd working hours need to be broadcasted to everybody and hence I have this weird thing hanging from my desk now.
It's the Attitude When I came home I still was thinking about all that and why this little change works so well for me. Only when I looked back further in time I realised that with the new timing I had adopted a different attitude towards my work as well. Previously my biggest advantage was to be available all the time. Whenever somebody shouted – I was there. Only: It’s impossible to plan ahead when living like that. It turns out that for me to perform well it is hugely important to have my tasks planned through for the day. I still have degrees of freedom and I will re-prioritise if needed, but to get me going into the day I need to know that the task ahead is doable - and if the day goes entirely differently? Well, then I will plan the next day accordingly.
Individual Tasks vs. Pile of Duties As soon as I only have a list of stuff that needs to be done – let’s say within the next few days – then I only see the huge workload as one big mountain to climb. I feel like having to put too much on my plate. At work that is not that a big problems because I have to re-prioritise all the time so tasks are moving up and down the list and the list stays the same length anyway.
Only an hour to go until hubby comes home – sh… what can I achieve in one hour, not a lot really, load the cappuccino machine again, change the dishwasher, feed the cat, gosh day over already, oh can do my stuff tomorrow – only: Tomorrow it’ll be the same! It’s weird. Since I started writing for the site, although extremely time consuming I have more time than before. I’m so keen to getting on the computer that I quickly do the things I scheduled for the day. Monday is working until 3PM – day is lost for writing anyway – hence going food shopping. Getting stuff into the shelves and probably cooking some veg, potatoes, eggs or pasta to keep in the fridge for the week. 6PM Cappuccino, 7:30 Gym Tuesday – leaving at 12 o’clock. Review what I wrote at the weekend. It has been sitting there nicely for ripening. Now after two days I can read it with fresh eyes. When I need a break I water the plants, Iron some shirts and get the washed clothes into the wardrobes. That way everything is in a state that the cleaner can do her work on Wednesday. 6 PM Cappuccino, 7:30 Gym. Wednesday – brilliant! Leaving at 12, in the morning the cleaner was there and I have all afternoon to file down the articles and link everything nicely together. All I do for housework is the washing and hanging it. I take the cappuccino break with hubby and then go back to the computer again. No housework, no nothing, then having nice dinner with hubby.
Realise something else? I have a wonderful day in the middle of the week. Usually I started to go downhill from Wednesdays on, getting worried about the workload that already had accumulated and now lurking there to be done at the weekend. Thursday – Long hours: Getting home at 5:30PM. Having all day at work makes it easier to achieve certain tasks which need a bit more concentration and persistence. So usually the Thursdays are good workdays. Cappuccino at 6 PM, sometimes a bit of writing – like now – and off to the gym at 730.
I try to mix tasks which I like and which I don’t like. It’s a sort of reward system I invented for myself. Looking back at the end of the day it feels as if I only did stuff I that like and I’m delighted that most of the rubbishy things are done as well. Friday – leaving at 11: Long weekend. That is brilliant. Normally I would be rather grumpy because I still would have a big pile of stuff to be done. Now on Fridays I enjoy cleaning the fish tanks – little girl playing with water,YAY! – I have a chat with mum on the phone, do my emails or meet with friends. It’s the time for gardening and writing a bit more. If I feel like it I take care of the dried clothes, but if not - well there is the Tuesdays where I usually do that anyway. 6 PM Cappuccino and 7:30 off to the gym.
Going Uphill vs Downhill
What is Called 'Exciting'? It is not a horribly exciting life, is it? On the other hand people take notice that I’m full of energy and I can’t help but feel that I become contagious to some of them. That is an even better feeling than being oh so important due to constant availability. I have to say: I never before achieved as much as I do at the moment – What makes life pretty exciting! |
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