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Over the past week, I’ve been experiencing a strange phenomenon: I don’t know what to do with myself. After months of looking forward to living Uncommonly, I am finding time management to be a little challenging.
It is sad but true. This past week, I have had SO much time on my hands it has crippled me into basic inaction. Not to say I haven’t been productive in some senses, but not in the really effective way I had wanted to be. You really understand how managed your time is by other people or things until you are 100% responsible for it!
While at the end of each day I looked back and wasn’t unhappy with what I had done that day, I was surprised how little I was doing. On the one hand, I deserve a little slack week to make the transition, for sure. It was also my birthday, so I can give myself a little break there too. But I was also a little discouraged at how much didn’t get done.
The solution: structured time. I forgot how much time was in a day – commuting into work took so much time up that I didn’t realize. Now that I am working from home and have literally 16 hours a day to fill as I please, it is a little daunting.
But a creative person needs to know good time management skills, my mom always says. I would qualify myself as creative, so I guess what is lacking is structure. I don’t guess, some deep part of my mind knows for sure that is what is missing.
So this begs the question: what do I *need* to factor into my schedule? What will help me be the most productive? How is the best way to structure my time?
Thus, my task for this week is to try to get a loose schedule, some sense of ordered structure, into my life.
Hopefully by self-imposing deadlines on my personal projects I can actually start the train moving on them.
Here’s to your Uncommon Life,
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So true! I buck against structure but without it, I am in a fog floating about getting nothing done. It does seem that when I start the day with something purposeful, the rest of the day goes well. I like to start w/exercise (to perk me up), then time to pray and read the Word (to get my heart on-track w/the Lord), and then work and write. I think I only hit this goal a few times a week (when work has been so busy that I’ve stayed up too late or I need to start work at 6:00 a.m.). Hope your new routine works for you!