Sometimes "good enough" really is good enough.

Lately the student portion of my life has been interfering with my work/boyfriend/father portions of my life. It has been overtaking every aspect of it. I have been unable to concentrate on anything else other than school because that is what is needed from it. The bad part is that the other three here are suffering from it. I can't spend time with the kids, my girlfriend has noticed that I am cranky because of it, and at work I can not stay focused because of the sheer amount of focus the schoolwork is demanding from me. Work has spilled in to my home life, home life gets pushed to the side, and often times feels ignored and doesnt want to tell me they feel ignored.

This semester has been a real bear. It's almost over. In the meantime I'm going to have to figure out where to get sleep because on Friday, the musician also comes in to play.

What I
Ve Lea rend from all of this is to just not stress out as much. That maybe giving 85% really is enough...it's still a passing grade and something to not be sneezed at. I don't like giving less than 100% but for the next 5 weeks, it's going to have to do if I want to get 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.