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Sorry to keep going on and on about my List, but that's what I am living with right now. It's hard to know what to do first when there are so many things to be done! And it gets complicated when other people's duties become your duties.
I have taken on two writing jobs at work that my coworker cannot handle, because she already has too much on her plate -- small jobs as far as number of words to be written, but significant in impact and expanding my writing horizons. The problem is, I now have three urgent projects that are all due next week, to add to my lengthy List of Doom that has been so weighing on my mind of late -- some which ought also to be done right away (if not yesterday!). How do I cope? I guess I'll just have to do one thing at a time!
I posted this quote once before, but interestingly enough, it came across my desk today as part of a newsletter about writing:
I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I ought to do, and
What I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do. (Everett Hale)
That is my motto for the day and for the weekend, as I chip away at my List of Things to Do. Some of those things are these work-related things, some are family things, some are ministry things. Some have to do with my friends and some have to do with myself and what I do for fun. Many of the jobs I have to do are boring, but no less important for that. ;-)
I am not so good at multi-tasking that I can do them all at once, but if I just do what I can as I am able and enabled, I'll get things done. Maybe not everything this weekend, but by the time Monday rolls around, I think I shall be able to say "Wow, I had a productive time of it, didn't I?" Even if only one thing got done, it's one less thing to worry about. ;-)
Doing one thing at a time is good -- as long as I make sure I look at the thing I finished for satisfaction, and not the many things I didn't yet finish!
I have taken on two writing jobs at work that my coworker cannot handle, because she already has too much on her plate -- small jobs as far as number of words to be written, but significant in impact and expanding my writing horizons. The problem is, I now have three urgent projects that are all due next week, to add to my lengthy List of Doom that has been so weighing on my mind of late -- some which ought also to be done right away (if not yesterday!). How do I cope? I guess I'll just have to do one thing at a time!
I posted this quote once before, but interestingly enough, it came across my desk today as part of a newsletter about writing:
I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I ought to do, and
What I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do. (Everett Hale)
That is my motto for the day and for the weekend, as I chip away at my List of Things to Do. Some of those things are these work-related things, some are family things, some are ministry things. Some have to do with my friends and some have to do with myself and what I do for fun. Many of the jobs I have to do are boring, but no less important for that. ;-)
I am not so good at multi-tasking that I can do them all at once, but if I just do what I can as I am able and enabled, I'll get things done. Maybe not everything this weekend, but by the time Monday rolls around, I think I shall be able to say "Wow, I had a productive time of it, didn't I?" Even if only one thing got done, it's one less thing to worry about. ;-)
Doing one thing at a time is good -- as long as I make sure I look at the thing I finished for satisfaction, and not the many things I didn't yet finish!
