Must...publish...something. It's past one a.m. I've finally finished the project that was due today. I suspect my effort was largely unnecessarily. I think perhaps I need to improve my time management, and my prioritization, and my ability to focus and ignore unimportant distractions. And distinguish what is an unimportant distraction.
But I learned some fascinating and useful things, and made a kick-butt powerpoint presentation on Easter and the unity of faiths, based on Joseph Campbell's work on archetypes.
I keep writing posts, but not having time to edit them, so they just stay in my drafts folder. Writing is easy. Editing takes far more time. I wonder if I'll ever find it as easy and quick to edit as it is to write? I'll assume it's like everything else: practice and you will achieve.
Oh, here's a good quote, related to that. From Grandfather (Tom Brown Jr's teacher). I don't have the exact quote right now, so I'll have to paraphrase:
'The main thing standing in the way of mastery, is oneself.'
I take that to mean: good news! You can easily achieve mastery, if you really want. Just put in the time and dedication. The only thing stopping you from doing that, is yourself. Which is way more within your control than anything else in the world.
I should probably take this all as a sign that I need to stop accepting requests from people to do things. Just for a bit, so I can catch up on sleep and long term essential projects, like taxes.
And yet, I can't help thinking that if I was just a bit better at focusing and ignoring distractions, I could easily get it all done. Maybe Santa can get me those virtues for Christmas.
OK guys, that's all I got for now.
Beleaguered and rumpled, but with much love,
-I
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