"Organization and self-discipline are not things I learned at my mother's knee. Or at all. I have to make major efforts to manage my time so I can write. Always. It's not a linear process. It's more two steps forward and one step back, if I'm lucky and I haven't fallen over altogether, metaphorically speaking. Then I get started again. I'm always reading about better ways to manage time in all aspects of my life in order to isolate time to work. This has been going on for years. I won't even get into how many years."
I've tapered off with the time management writing, because, as I said last week, many random on-line people claim the expertise to write about time management, and I don't want to be another one of them. But, also as I said last week, in the time that I haven't been writing about time management my management of time has been spiraling. Back when I was writing about time, "I was hungry for ways to get things done and sometimes even finding a few."
Finding those occasional ways to get things done provided a sense of optimism that I'd enjoy feeling again.
Seeking Time
Among the things I've learned these last fourteen years is that time cannot be controlled. There is always more to do than there is time to do it, and the more to do comes at you when it will, not when you want it. Knowing that, the old title, Time Management Tuesday, seems woefully inaccurate. It also gives the appearance of expertise that I can't claim. I am only a seeker, one who is willing to seek everywhere, not just in what might be called the field of traditional "time management." So, I'm changing the title of this feature to Seeking Time.
Additionally, without the "Tuesday" in the title I eliminate the pressure to write and publish a time-related post every week and give myself the option to post any day.
A positive impact on my time! I'm feeling optimistic already.
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