Do Not Mess with My Disorganization
Author's note: While you are reading this, I am speaking at the DARA conference in Dallas. Please forgive my absence
I have been doing this little exercise where I keep track of my time each day. It turns out that I spend more time writing blogs and posting on Facebook and Twitter, and answering mail than I actually do writing. Now, some of that is because I am writing a first draft, and that's the hardest. When I start editing (hopefully next week), that ratio will change.
I spend about two hours "working out." That's about an hour of actual physical activity surrounded by stretching, and looking for my iPod, and getting Moose ready to go out, then icing my (still-injured) calf and entering what I've done in my little exercise journal, and so forth. It does not include the shower. That's another thirty minutes. Oh, and I take an hour and a half for lunch. But I try and read something every day. I mean, something other than People Magazine (which can take a good thirty minutes, depending on who is on the cover).
I have discovered that contrary to my view of myself, I am not very organized. I kind of ping around from one thing to another. As a result, I have started scheduling my day like I used to do when I was working. I am doing this to make sure I get in enough writing time. Things were going pretty good until zap, Daylight Savings time started.
Why, why, why, did they move it back?? Now the sun doesn't come up until 7:30 or so, and I am sleeping later, and it is not working for me! Recently I have been in places where they don't have daylights savings time, and I LIKE having the sun come up early. I am more productive in the morning. I need more of that. I am mad at the universe for messing with my disorganization. I am mad that I don't have an alarm clock. If I could vote, I would say, get rid of daylight savings time and give me back my mornings. I need them!
How do you feel about daylight savings time? Take it or leave it? How organized are you? Do you know how much time you spend doing what your really MUST do as opposed to what you want to do?
