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.

I take everything that comes my way one day at a time.

No, I don't have multiple personality disorder or anything like that. But, I do pretty much live five lives that all intertwine with each other.

• Boyfriend
• Father
• Manager
• Student
• Musician

That's a lot of one person to handle. I like to think I do all aspects of it well. There are not too many other people I know that take on all of that at the same time and still have time for themselves. Right now, the student is trying to take over all other aspects of my life. There is so much to get done right now before the end of the semester it's about to kill me.

I have work from Monday through Friday, that's nothing new. I have been doing that for years. Being a father never stops. Being a decent boyfriend as well to my lady during all of this stress is not always the easiest, but she is the reason I am able to keep it all together. Then on top of that I am a musician. Music runs through my body all the time. I have probably written more songs in my head on the way home than I can even think and they are all lost because it happens during a 40 minute ride home form work.

I'll be posting some of the things I do to juggle everything I do on this blog. It won't be updated as much as my other one Today was better because... but I will be updating it on a normal (once a week or more?) basis. Some of the things that are there do help contribute to how I make things better in these five lives. If you've got things that help you out, feel free to comment on the posts. I'll pass them along in other postings as well.