Reaching critical mass...

It is that point in the semester where everything starts to really weigh you down. I have one class where it is nothing but group work. We have one weekly assignment that is hard to even start until after the Monday class, and it is due in two days. Then there is the term group project which is an ongoing thing, but the next phase is also due THIS WEDNESDAY. On top of that, I have another class where we are at the end and of course... group project. I would have loved to skip tonight, but it is the night we are going to do said project work so I can't. Let's top that off with a helping of two eight hour work days (no lunch thanks to school) and having to play a show tomorrow.

I have no doubts that I will be up until the wee hours of the morning. I will try my best to do it without the help of caffeine. I'm not sure if I will succeed or not, but I will try.

The whole timing will be fun. I made my list, I know what I need to do.

Class, drive home, make a quick dinner, eat while working on term group work, get gear for tomorrow ready, sleep (right!), wake up, shower, load gear, go to work, get work done, do some weekly group work at the office at 5pm, eat dinner, show, load gear, home, more weekly and term group work, sleep...

It never ends, but I'm getting things done.

Breaking everything up in to little chunks.

My lady has helped me out with getting things done around the house lately. No, she's not the one actually doing the work. I always tend to have "big picture" syndrome when looking at something like house cleaning. I know what I want the end product to look like, but I can't actually get anything going because it feels overwhelming and then I just don't start it at all.

She got me going on the whole "chunks of time" concept. I started using it in other places as well such as work and school. Basically, I set time aside. It could be fifteen minutes, or two hours. Just set that time, and go do what needs to be done. If the alarm goes off and I keep going, I keep going, but I set more time. At the end of the time I set, I can take a break or go do something else. But at least I did SOMETHING productive in the time I set aside.

Since I started this, I have been getting quite a bit done. I'm also going to finally start reading a book that I picked up quite a while ago. Getting Things Done by David Allen. I started it, but as per usual... "things" got in the way. So, now I am going to set aside time to actually read the book too.