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After soaking up self-improvement, then transactional analysis, I've moved on to Time Management this week. Now, as poor as my efforts at self-organization have been in the past, I thoroughly expect to get bogged down in this.
One of my plans for today is to do a Journal dump. I actually wrote quite a bit in my journal by hand this week, and it would be interesting for Thursday to be review day to see if anything interesting came out of it. Developing story ideas, post ideas for communities....
One tiny assignment is to work on the "Inbox." The organizational book I was reading... (note to self, copy flow chart and post it at home and at work) ... said the first part of the process is collecting. I knew that. I was surprised to discover how much I was collecting... and how often things were repeated in the collection because I a)couldn't mentally put it down, b)rarely acted on my collection. So, that's actually two parts: 1. Become aware of inboxing/collecting. 2. start movement on collections.
So, this morning, I am aware that I sometimes use my livejournal for inboxing. That's not really necessary, and it obfuscates the point of the journal. I also have hotmail, yahoo, gmail and two personal domains... that's pretty confusing, too.
Also, while I'm at work (where teh Intraweb is) I write down notes to myself, receive notes from my co-worker, receive mail, make and receive phone calls, and frequently type up a computer stickie/notepad document... I need to make this collection more leakproof... :)
Anyone else out there organized? Anyone formerly disorganized? How did you practice focusing?
Something I also do frequently with the journal, which seems necessary somehow, but isn't getting done right: Sometimes I inbox story/essay/op ed/plot ideas. But they never get reviewed. Memory? Postdate? Ok, so, back that up. Don't inbox ideas, but tickle them... postdate, review how that works...
*... wanders off mumbling to self... looking a little more mad-scientist-y...*
One of my plans for today is to do a Journal dump. I actually wrote quite a bit in my journal by hand this week, and it would be interesting for Thursday to be review day to see if anything interesting came out of it. Developing story ideas, post ideas for communities....
One tiny assignment is to work on the "Inbox." The organizational book I was reading... (note to self, copy flow chart and post it at home and at work) ... said the first part of the process is collecting. I knew that. I was surprised to discover how much I was collecting... and how often things were repeated in the collection because I a)couldn't mentally put it down, b)rarely acted on my collection. So, that's actually two parts: 1. Become aware of inboxing/collecting. 2. start movement on collections.
So, this morning, I am aware that I sometimes use my livejournal for inboxing. That's not really necessary, and it obfuscates the point of the journal. I also have hotmail, yahoo, gmail and two personal domains... that's pretty confusing, too.
Also, while I'm at work (where teh Intraweb is) I write down notes to myself, receive notes from my co-worker, receive mail, make and receive phone calls, and frequently type up a computer stickie/notepad document... I need to make this collection more leakproof... :)
Anyone else out there organized? Anyone formerly disorganized? How did you practice focusing?
Something I also do frequently with the journal, which seems necessary somehow, but isn't getting done right: Sometimes I inbox story/essay/op ed/plot ideas. But they never get reviewed. Memory? Postdate? Ok, so, back that up. Don't inbox ideas, but tickle them... postdate, review how that works...
*... wanders off mumbling to self... looking a little more mad-scientist-y...*
