Been thinking recently about priorities and how I’m going to make enough time for all of them.
Made a list of Stuff I Do:
With family (includes Paco)
Reading
- For pleasure
- “Professional”
Blogging
- Here
- LINT
- Comments
Games
Watching tv/movies
Exercise
Quiet time
Language stuff
- learning new
- working with existing
This is in rough order of priority, or maybe that should be order of frequency.
I haven’t added writing to this list, something I want to do more of. I had my Emsig yesterday (MPOW’s version of the annual appraisal – stands for Managing for Continuous Improvement and Growth – the MCIG, everyone calls it Emsig – sounds like an agricultural production target in a command economy or something…). The Boss is keen for me to keep writing. I’m finding that although I don’t find always the process particularly easy, I do enjoy getting my thoughts on paper (or onscreen). I volunteered to work on a couple of papers, after telling The Boss that LINT folks are working on another at the moment. Which reminded me that I was meant to have converted my two conference papers from last year into journal articles.
I don’t really have any strategies for making more time, apart from watching less tv and spending less time on games. As it is, I’m not spending all that much time on both these days.
Looking at the list, it occurs to me that I would like to have exercise as a higher priority. I don’t think quiet time is high enough on the list, either. Language stuff is too low on the list, but this might change soon, as M and I are going to be attending Dutch language class soon.
The only item on the list that is completely non-negotiable is family time, but that’s as it should be, I think.
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I conclude that you need to take a yoga class instructed in Hindi…that should give you a few ticks on the language, relaxation and exercise headings.
Two days ago I started using Remember the Milk. It’s great and allows you to tab your tasks into categories like you divided yours.
I’m half way through writing a post about it which should be up in a few days. I love the idea of one feature that I don’t use – you can nominate the geo. location of your errand on a map and then see what you have to do that is geo. close to each other.
The feature that I love and use all the time is the ability to enter “tomorrow” or “two weeks” as the date and have them converted instantly into dates.
Thanks Kathryn! You know, I once attended Taichi class conducted in Mandarin. At the time I hated it because I ended up being unofficial interpreter for the rest of the class, but now I think about it it would be good to be able to do that class all over again… 😉
As for Remember the Milk, I’ll take a look!