A Date with Myself

Okay, I am very poor in free time, and spending my pittance quite poorly to boot, wasting it on time-killing nonsense that provides me with very little.

I am going to spend some time tomorrow thinking about how to spend my time and coming up with some kind of plan.

I am going to have to divest myself from some activities I feel I need to make time for. I do not think I actually have enough waking hours to do all the things I want to do - even if I subtracted all the things I need to do. And I will not be sacrificing sleep - at least not yet.

I am writing about it here to make myself that much more accountable. Ok, here's the plan:

I will spend 30 minutes tomorrow, from 7:30pm to 8:00pm, writing down all the tasks and projects I need to complete and want to complete - estimate the time commitment and come up with some kind of schedule. The schedule will consist of a daily/weekly regimen as well as individual events marked on my calendar.

There is an important rule I will follow: I must set a maximum amount of time in which to perform these tasks that is less than the total amount of waking hours. That is, a certain amount of time will have nothing scheduled at all - not work, not study, not relaxation, not vegetation, not play - not anything. It won't even show up on the schedule.

This is important, because I need to remember that my life is not entirely in my control, and I have to allow room for both the weight of circumstances and the pressure of my own spontaneous soul.

There it is.

See you all tomorrow, then, with the results.

Dream well.