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GETTING IT ALL IN
Remember when all you had to do was cook dinner?
People lately have asked me “How do you do so much at once?” And oddly I don’t think I do enough. At the end of every day there are about ten things swimming through my brain that I know I did not address and I will have to get to in the morning. Sometimes I have the urge to pop out of bed and get a few more things done, but I have been trying to suppress this urge. And truth is so many people do so much more than I do. I think it just looks like I do a lot.
There is no question when I wrote films I had a much more nine to five job.
Anyone who works with social media will tell you it’s a hundred times more work than almost anything anyone has ever done, it’s not actually that it’s more work, it’s that it never rests. I was talking to Joni Evans who runs WOWOWOW at Literacy Partners this week and she was saying running a site is the most work she has ever faced and she had her own imprint in publishing. Sally Quinn said the same thing when we were talking about working online, it is the job that never lets up.
When you work in an office it eventually closes, people do go home and before we were all so hooked up and wired in and able to take everything wherever we go we go we had dinners without intrusions or notices blinking and reminding us that we had something to attend to pronto. We have become a group of non-stop worker bees.
Several friends have said this week “I need to slow down.” “We’re all dancing too fast.” “I need to stop and just be.”
Yesterday, I actually took the day off all responsibilities and went fishing. Well, I actually didn’t go fishing, but I only did things I wanted to do and spent as little time at the computer as possible.
But that being said, Friday’s Tips got moved to Saturday.
I do have some tips for the people who ask about budgeting time and getting it all in and how does one do many things and live a life at the same time.
The first thing I will say is we are all juggling a lot and whenever you juggle anything eventually you will drop a ball, hopefully it isn’t heavy and won’t fall on your foot, but when you do, pick it up, take a deep breath and toss it back up in the air. We are all only human.
1) I am a list maker. I cannot live without lists. My family teases me. I write them in notebooks, on scraps of paper,anywhere I can. But one of the best things I have found is something I was turned onto by super- do -it -all- girl extraordinaire Debbie Stier who launched her new site The Perfect Score Project this week. Deb turned me on to TEUX DEUX. Of all the list sites or APPS I have encountered this the best by far It’s free, it’s sleek, and it’s simple. It works on all iPhones and iPods and computers. Deb told me how to upload it so it’s the first thing that pops up when I log onto my browser. It has a space for each day and the things you don’t do on Monday get automatically moved onto Tuesday. Check it out. It’s the best reminder tool I use.
2) I try and answer every email or request as soon as it comes in. I don’t always do it, but I try. And if I can’t get to it that second, I use Gmail’s priority mail system and I star it. I trash or file everything as it comes in accordingly so my inbox is never stuffed. My goal is everything is answered by day’s end. But by getting to things the second I get them I find I never get a huge backup.
3) MIT – LIST – I read this somewhere, but each day when you are making your TO DO LIST have the
