Irons in the fire
I’ve reached that state I’m sure many of you will recognise, where I’ve so many ideas, so many things to do, so many irons in the fire I don’t know what to do first… so I’ll ignore them all and just blog about it.
It would be lovely if all ones bright ideas just lined themselves up into a neat row and said “start here!” but alas…. Then when I do make a choice, I find I rapidly reach a step where I need XYZ from blokey over there, and blokey over there is, inexplicably, busy getting on with his own life instead of waiting on tenterhooks for my request to come in. It’s dashed annoying! No, hang on, that’s not right.
I am a firm believer in Slow Living. In taking your time to enjoy things. To get things right and do stuff properly, from scratch, and enjoy the process. Does this only apply when I haven’t got enough on to need to hurry? That doesn’t sound right. Hmmm… I’m not normally one to hold a principle only as long as it’s convenient, so it seems a bit of reassessment is required here.
Okay, I’ve got a lot to do. Have I got urgent deadlines for any of them? Well, no. Have I got clients jumping up and down for stuff? Quite the reverse, see blokey reference above. Sure the sooner some are done, the sooner I have the potential to earn money from the paying ones. But that’s not enough incentive to drive myself batty over. It’s true some of the ideas might leak out of my brain if I don’t do something about them fairly quickly, but a notepad and a biro would probably solve that one. Until I lose the notepad at least.
And look, I’ve blogged, so that’s one thing off the list for today already! Hey, this isn’t so bad. I think I’ll go and put the kettle on. And find a notepad. And a biro. By then the fire will probably have gone out.
