Trying not to be bored.
July 7th, 2007 by Larry D. Burton
Okay, y’all know where I am tonight and I have nothing else to do so I’m going to write. It has been a while since I’ve updated this website and I apologize to those of you who are still checking in here from time to time but there are two reasons that I haven’t written anything lately.
- I don’t have much time anymore.
- Even though I have all these ideas that I want to get on paper I just haven’t felt like writing.
I’m on the road for two and a half hours each day going to and from work. I work nine to ten hours a day so that just leaves me with four hours or less to take care of eating, household chores and quality time with my wife, son and dog. Add into that that I’m also involved in other things in my community and my time is gone. I want to find more time to write because I really do have a lot of things on my mind that I’d like to get on paper even if no one else cares about these things besides me.
I’ve been tired lately and just haven’t felt creative. That’s probably a function of the above but I still see it as a distinctive reason unto its self for my having not written anything.
I think with all I have put on myself I just need to become more organized with my time. Twelve years ago I began carrying a Daytimer and found it to be extremely valuable in keeping myself organized. After carrying a Daytimer around for five years I bought a Palm Pilot and, after about six months, began carrying it around instead. About three years ago I broke the Palm, actually the second one I had.
This coincided with a sort of minimalist time in my life when I began avoiding carrying anything more than I absolutely needed. I was being encouraged to carry a composition book around with me at work and I found it to be a decent enough replacement for the Palm that I never replaced the Palm.
I picked up a Franklin-Covey organizer the other day and I’m getting myself back into the habit of keeping my time organized. This may take a couple of months to regain what little organizational skills I had with my old Daytimer back but I’m thinking this might give me both the time and inspiration to write more than I have.
I guess we’ll see.
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Ah. Organization. An elusive acquisition. I say that because I have concluded that like all things of worth it must be wrung with incremental effort from stubborn facts and obstacles. Many are not very good at it. Faced with your situation, I would be numb. You are doing so much better than so many, Larry, be not discouraged. Yeah, putting your to-do list and schedule on paper is a help. But putting things on paper is another of those things that stubbornly resists accomplishment.
Without your constraints of time and balky airlines, I still battle the Giant Disorganization. Like Pilgrim, you will avoid the swamps and pitfalls. I do check your blog every day or so. And occasionally the forum on Camp Bucca. You have more distractions than La Guardia’s sullen uncooperation, I think.