Admin day

I want my life to be simpler but I have a few significant things working against me.

• I am a very curious person and find something interesting in most things.
• I am also plagued by enthusiasm; I find myself getting passionately immersed in things.

I know you are scoffing thinking that these are in fact characteristics I should be enjoying about myself, and I do enjoy them, they are the greatest source of enjoyment I have other than the kind I get from being with people I love. However they are also insidious attention thieves, pulling me this way and that, getting me excited, making me loose myself in wonderful things, things that aren’t in the plan – dammit.

There is of course a time for wonder and following your bliss and all of that that but sometimes you just want to start something, work hard on it and finish it and feel all warm and complete inside. That is a very difficult thing for someone with enthusiastic curiosity disorder, or Maggpie disorder as I sometimes refer to it – shinny thing… where… off I go!

Training the monkey

I know what your thinking, I just need some discipline, a strategy, a plan… well today’s the day to start training this monkey. My first experiment is to create a set time to do all the little things that fall through the cracks as I wonder about, head in a dream. Mondays are now Admin days. These are the rules.

• No meetings to be booked, or long lunches for that matter.
• No project work.
• No spending 3 hours researching something I read about in a blog.
• No reading blogs, or other kind of information input.

Things that I will be doing:

• Replying to emails
• calling people back
• bringing databases up to date with contacts, accounts and any other kind of tracking data and
• check stats and send out reports.

It sounds like a super dull day I know but I’m going to focus on that, rarely felt, feeling of order I’m going to get come 6pm. If it works there may be more specialty days to come.