CLEAN SWEEPER
Friday, February 18, 2022
Over time I got really good at scheduling.
So I thought.
Given some recent re-working of daily tasks and specific calls, appointments, and meetings, I’ve found fresh energy emerged – got unlocked.
By combining how I allocate my time and commitments, or more correctly, now I’ve reallocated time and rationalized my obligations to myself and my schedule. Suddenly I have more time, and the time-monkey on my back seems is gone …
There is a blank space on my calendar that wasn’t there before.
I know, it was always there, but it was covered up by too many things to do – I got tired just by reading it, but it worked for a long time until it wasn’t working so well any longer.
I’ve been rearranging my workflow; it’s odd how time magically appearing on a page boosts energy, but it does. I found that each week, I had so many accumulated ‘tasks to do’ every day, week or on some other frequency – which, when co-mingled with follow-up calls and appointments, became an overwhelming load. Most of my repetitive items have found their way onto an old fashioned to-do list, freeing up my database connected calendar for the freedom to think, to read, to get out in the marketplace, to visit, to drive around, but mostly, to relax and be far more at ease. It’s like early spring cleaning on my calendar, and it’s feeling like the clean sweep has swept on through.
Yesterday, for instance, I was distracted for four hours consecutive hours, showing a property, drafting an offer and then getting it submitted by the end of the day, all done without missing calls or appointments.
Today will be a less free day, but it’s more like a typical light-work Friday instead of an all too frequent accumulation of all things I didn’t get done this week. I’m tired, sure, but feeling energized. Being busy, bringing life back to some semblance of productivity is satisfying and tiring and better than everything else.
Reader feedback:
Hi Mark, My mother was a collector - not a hoarder but when it came to clearing out her home the amount of' 'stuff ' she had accumulated over 87 years was overwhelming. My mother-in-law was the exact opposite; a minimalist she never bought more than was needed. She said spending on wants often leads to waste. I know she is right, JR, Calgary, AB