How to Juggle in Six Easy Steps

Hello, my friends!

As you may or may not have noticed,  with the exception of Monday’s post, I have been incredibly blog-absent lately.  There’s a really good reason for this: I’ve been incredibly work-and-family-present (including a trip last June overseas — hence the picture of me with a Scottish llama), so it’s all good.  That said, I miss blogging — not because I miss babbling into WordPress, but because this was a big way I hung out with people online.  The extended blog-cation has been a bit of an extended communication-cation too, and that’s a bummer.

So now here I am with a bunch of fabulous projects on the horizon, a bunch of real-life commitments that excite me… and a desire to get back into hanging with you guys more regularly.  It’s a lot of juggling.  How can I make that work?  I figured I’d do research on that wonder of wonders, the Internet.  Specifically, I’d look up “How To Juggle In Three Easy Steps,” since of course anything worth doing can be done in three easy steps.

I didn’t find three, but I did find a site that advised how to do it in six easy steps, so let’s see if it helps.

1. Choose Suitable Balls

See?  Already I’m entertained.

But it works beyond making me giggle.  I have a tendency to choose unsuitable balls (tee hee), and say yes to too many projects.  I’ve gotten much better at that recently, and really try to stick with projects that are smart career choices, and/or true passions.

2. Toss One Ball for Awhile to Get the Feel of Juggling

Hmmm… maybe I did this when I took the extended blog-cation — really pared back and concentrated on just a couple things, instead of taking on everything at once and going crazy.

3. Practice Scooping

Oh man… already my metaphor is falling apart.  Practice scooping?  Really?  I have no idea what to do for this one.

Maybe this wasn’t the best idea.  But in the spirit of working effectively, I’m NOT going to scrap the post!  That would make the last bout of blogging a waste of time, and it’s all about time-effectiveness, right?

My takeaway is that while I still don’t have the answer, I’m going to do my best to make it work because I miss chatting with you.  And to that end…

How do you manage juggling all the zillions of things you have to/want to do each day?  What are your favorite tools and tips?

Oh, and if you really do want to learn to juggle in six easy steps, here‘s the site I found.

I look forward to your thoughts!