I’ve recently put myself on a strict schedule. See, I was going to work all day, just about every day, and in so doing I was just falling behind. So I fired up the old electronic calendar and started typing. It works ok, but in order to fit everything in, I had to move the “Start of Day” time to 8 am, and I don’t really like waking up early enough to get to work by 8.

Also, I had to move the end of the day to 6 on some days and 7 on others, and that’s not really conducive to my lifestyle, either. But I persist. If I can get myself to actually drop what I am doing when the little alert comes up on the calendar and move to the next task, it really works. I even hurry things along once in a while in order to beat my self-imposed deadline. Weird.

I will tell you this: all this discipline is exhausting. Have the rest of you been doing this every day? Right now I am considering it an emergency measure until I get a few big projects done. But I suppose I need to consider the fact that it could be an everyday sort of thing, this…focus.

Writing this sort of thing is not on my calendar.