How the hell do people do it?
Aug. 19th, 2009 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI know I keep asking this, but it's because there's something I fundamentally don't grok about truly organized people.
How do people get everything done? How? Even when I make a sincere effort not to procrastinate, I still don't get everything done. Not even close. Between work and groceries and dishes and, y'know, sleeping, I never seem to have time for much. The occasional TV show, a night out here and there with friends, and that means that a TON of stuff gets left by the wayside.
For example, here are the things I have sort of on the go but don't have time to get to these days:
- weeding the garden (long overdue)
- finishing the installation of my IKEA shelves
- sorting out my bookcases
- cooking my meals for the next few weeks
- knitting (the baby blanket is nearly finished, but I have at least three other projects that need attention)
- finishing my current video game (untouched for three weeks now)
- organizing the pantry
- baking bread
- writing my serials (untouched for God knows how long)
- editing the zombie novel
- writing the current novel
- working on my other writing project
What I *have* managed to do is have guests for WorldCon, buy a minimum of food so I don't starve while I lack the time to cook in bulk, keep the apartment reasonably tidy, do several loads of laundry, knit most of a baby blanket, wash all my dishes, go to work, watch a few episodes of BSG and River Cottage, and manage to keep body and soul together.
It doesn't feel like much when I look at all the stuff I want to do or feel like I ought to be doing. Some of it is purely wishful thinking (the video game, for instance, isn't life or death), but some of it is actually really important to me, and I haven't done it.
All the reasonable sources (books and internet alike) say that I have to "just do it." Find the time, make the time, stick my butt in the chair and work. I just... need more specific instructions than that, I think, because all the good intentions in the world aren't helping me.
So... anyone got any concrete advice? I'm sort of borderline despairing here.
How do people get everything done? How? Even when I make a sincere effort not to procrastinate, I still don't get everything done. Not even close. Between work and groceries and dishes and, y'know, sleeping, I never seem to have time for much. The occasional TV show, a night out here and there with friends, and that means that a TON of stuff gets left by the wayside.
For example, here are the things I have sort of on the go but don't have time to get to these days:
- weeding the garden (long overdue)
- finishing the installation of my IKEA shelves
- sorting out my bookcases
- cooking my meals for the next few weeks
- knitting (the baby blanket is nearly finished, but I have at least three other projects that need attention)
- finishing my current video game (untouched for three weeks now)
- organizing the pantry
- baking bread
- writing my serials (untouched for God knows how long)
- editing the zombie novel
- writing the current novel
- working on my other writing project
What I *have* managed to do is have guests for WorldCon, buy a minimum of food so I don't starve while I lack the time to cook in bulk, keep the apartment reasonably tidy, do several loads of laundry, knit most of a baby blanket, wash all my dishes, go to work, watch a few episodes of BSG and River Cottage, and manage to keep body and soul together.
It doesn't feel like much when I look at all the stuff I want to do or feel like I ought to be doing. Some of it is purely wishful thinking (the video game, for instance, isn't life or death), but some of it is actually really important to me, and I haven't done it.
All the reasonable sources (books and internet alike) say that I have to "just do it." Find the time, make the time, stick my butt in the chair and work. I just... need more specific instructions than that, I think, because all the good intentions in the world aren't helping me.
So... anyone got any concrete advice? I'm sort of borderline despairing here.
