Too many projects, not enough hours in the day

[mousme]

I have too many projects in my head. Well, there's no such thing as too many projects, you'll say, but when the number of hours in the day begin to dwindle as they tend to do, it becomes awkward to then carry out the aforementioned projects.

Yay run-on sentences! Yay sentence fragments!

Okay, digression over. Oh, not over yet. Note to self: must update later about Comedyworks last night. Okay, now the digression is over.

Part of me is really excited about these projects. A big part of me, in fact. I have some tentative goals, which I intend to think about more concretely in the near future, so that I can be sure to accomplish them. The idea is something akin to baronscartop's challenge to make up a hoax about oneself and then make it not a hoax (that's the column dated October 3rd, for when it gets archived). Have yet to think which of these projects is the hoax I care most about. This will likely become clearer in time.

Another part of me is screeching loudly at the back of my mind. Something along the lines of: "Are you INSANE?" (Please don't answer that.) "You can't start all these projects at the same time as NaNoWriMo, not to mention all your other commitments! You'll go crazy!"

Admittedly, that voice is usually Shithead. However, he does have a point, that I tend to take on too much and then crash and burn and accomplish nothing. So, the goal now is to make Shithead shut up, get my projects going, but in such a way that nothing, my sanity first and foremost, gets sacrificed.

This is going to take some very careful planning and balancing. I'm not sure how to do this yet. I suppose it'll depend widely on the timeframe I give myself, and the number of projects I can actually get going. Some of these would involve money, which I don't have right now, so at least that's reasonable enough to put on hold until I actually have a bit of spare cash. Saving up is sort of a sub-project so that I can get to these other projects.

Okay, rambling now, so I'm going to stop.

But yes. Ambition's the word, these days.

Comments

[baronscartop.livejournal.com]

Why not make up more than one hoax? They're fun. And useful.

The same goes for taking on too many projects (provided these projects don't oblige you to other people). Start too many. Soon you will have to cut, but this is fine because you have figured out which ones are more immediate, and you'll have made a start on the others, to come back to. Key here is to remember you knew it was too much when you went in, to avoid implosion.

Example: When was the last B12? Okay, I'd rather have had it out, but I was in town one of the last three weekends, and that weekend I wrote the equivalent of 3 B12s. For starters. So I'm behind and that's a drag, but it's an outcome I can accept.

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[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not going to pick only one hoax. The question is, which to pick first?

It's all about figuring out how to prioritize.

Going to go pass out now. More later, when I'm (hopefully) coherent.

[joane.livejournal.com]

Something along the lines of: "Are you INSANE?" (Please don't answer that.) "You can't start all these projects at the same time as NaNoWriMo, not to mention all your other commitments! You'll go crazy!"

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Lists! I live by and love my lists. :) Write 'em down so you don't forget 'em, and maybe hold off on starting anything else until you see how NaNo starts for you this year? Once you know how easy/difficult the writing will be this time, then you can start slotting the new projects in as you have time... I'd hate to see you get frustrated and not enjoy the fun stuff you're doing 'cause you're trying to do it all at once. :)

I've finally got some of the things crossed off that have been on my list for more than a year, and *damn* does it feel good that I was able to do them when I was in the right mindset, and get them done to my satisfaction. Better, I think, than if I'd tried to do them all as soon as I'd thought of them/bought the materials, gotten fed up, run all my fabric through the shredder and sulked for a month. ;)

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Once again, I am reminded of the "Confidence and Paranoia" dichotomy in the Red Dwarf episode of the same name.

LISTER: "There's this theory that me and Chen used to have. It's like
everyone's got two people inside you. You've got your confidence and
paranoia. And your confidence's the guy who goes, "Hey you're great.
You're dead sexy! Everybody loves you!" And your paranoia says,
"You're stupid. You're useless. You're ugly. And everybody hates you."

Either taken to extreme can result in badness was the emphasis. It's much easier to see how "paranoia" leads to unhappy situations though.

CONFIDENCE: "Hey! Oxygen's for losers! Come on."

I guess you just call them Ambition and Shithead. Nowhere near as classy or geeky, I'm afraid. :)