Ha-ha! Final Post, catching up to current. Those last two were during lunch break, this one is in the evening, right before bed.
As I start to get close to current with my organizational systems, I am finally faced with the wonderful problem to have, of actually some time to spend on things, other than basic treading-water life-support.
I'm not planning on worrying to much about that though, as my main task for the foreseeable future is to maintain the order I've created and turn that maintenance into a habit. Slow, steady creation of good habits is something I would consider one of my super-powers. Though it was not granted by a radioactive spider bite or good genetic luck, but by a very conscious process of figuring out what skills I needed to learn first, in order to improve myself. The first skill I developed was finding good teachers of whatever it was I wanted to learn, and the second was actually taking the action necessary to learn, and part of that was acquiring the knowledge and practice of creating good habits.
You see, I think I have below-average willpower, through genetics or circumstance (how much of each I don't know and it is irrelevant). And so I needed to figure out how I could compensate for that (or acquire more of it) a big part of the answer is learning how to create good habits.
So, in any case, my office looks and feels nice right now, and I have sufficient physical and mental space to begin structuring some good organizational habits and systems, which will hopefully end up giving me even more energy and time. I can already tell it's going to take some trial and error and adjusting and figuring out what works, but the luxury of actually being able to do that, after months and months of scrabbling to get to that place, is rewarding. I'm sure many people would have assumed, somewhere through the months of working on it whenever I had a free day or vacation time, that they would never get to the promised land, and would have given up. But I've done this journey enough times now to know that if you keep at it, you do eventually get where you're going. Perhaps that is a superpower of it's own. I suppose it would be a type of faith.
I'm also making more of an effort to stay in touch with my mentor, who was the whole reason I picked up and moved to this new state, hundreds of miles from home. She's great, wise, and encouraging, and is super generous with her time, so my number one job is just to try and make use of that, since that's what will give me the chance to become a truly great teacher. I don't know how people get to that point without a good mentor they can get advice from. I suppose some are just geniuses? I don't know. (But am intensely curious, as one of my dreams is cracking the code for how to train people to become great teachers.)
OK, the end. It's time for bed, or at least some other task. It's marvelous to be sitting at my clean desk, and have the space to actually think about what the best thing to do next is, rather than feeling tugged like a fish on a hook towards the next immediate thing that's captured my attention.
Love, good-bye, and woohoo, on getting to this point. I suspect my getting so far behind on blog posts is related to getting to this point. I perhaps put as many things on hold as I could, so I could build up the momentum to get to this point. And now I get to catch up, in a more relaxed and focused atmosphere.
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