Cleaning out the brain cobwebs
net?
An air of lethargy hangs around everything I do however this time I have
detected a pattern and I think I know the
cure.
I get to a point where I have so
many projects going on that I try to do them all at once and in doing so get a
‘brain bottleneck’. Everything is so gridlocked up in that head of mine that
nothing comes out. So its back to basics and a good old to do list.
I have, in the past, always had a
problem with calendars and to do lists. In my experience I have found that
keeping an ongoing to do list has two problems. Firstly, they become a job in
themselves such that at the top of the list is “do the to do list” slightly self
defeating. Secondly, and probably the most problematic, is that there are always
those task that never go away. You never complete them and then you have a
dilemma. Do you take them off the list without completing them? Surely if you
did that you undermine everything that the list stands for? So to combat this I
use new and improved ‘disposable’ to do lists. In the age of convenience
everything they just seem so
‘right’.
So, this is how they work. I
list everything I need to do them work out a priority. Simple right, absolute
basic time management? But here’s my trick.. when I am working down the list I
get to a point where my brain clears and i feel in control again. It is at that
point that the list goes straight in the bin. The gridlock is eased and I return
to dynamic task management.
Isn’t that
called winging it?
