Gearing up
Feb. 22nd, 2019 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eafmThe lead up to the next six weeks feels oddly like the lead up to a new semester. Not so much as a student, but as a teacher and as the kid of teachers -- every year there would be this flurry of organization and wrapping up loose ends in order to make the start of the school year as smooth as possible. I don't think most of it ever made it all the way to my birthday, but whatever that year's new systems were, they definitely smoothed those first few weeks.
I did an organizational clean sweep thing, as part of the lead up, and one thing I got out of it was a list of the most urgent tasks -- fires I need to put out quickly in order to avoid things blowing up or going badly wrong. I got through 7 out of 10 of those today, which feels damn good. I also said No to a few things I don't really want/need to do. My weekends are still a little too packed, but it's just that time of year, I think.
I also did a journaling exercise. What seeds do I want to be planting right now? What current projects do I want to be tending more actively? And various other gardening metaphors about weeding and thinning and such.
That sort of thing usually works really well for me. Right now not so much. I guess I'm back to where I was last fall -- I already know what to do, I just need to collect my scattered energy and attention and get them back on task. And breathe through the perimenopausal antsiness. I've made the decisions, now I just need to practice sitting with the discomfort of seeing them through.
I did an organizational clean sweep thing, as part of the lead up, and one thing I got out of it was a list of the most urgent tasks -- fires I need to put out quickly in order to avoid things blowing up or going badly wrong. I got through 7 out of 10 of those today, which feels damn good. I also said No to a few things I don't really want/need to do. My weekends are still a little too packed, but it's just that time of year, I think.
I also did a journaling exercise. What seeds do I want to be planting right now? What current projects do I want to be tending more actively? And various other gardening metaphors about weeding and thinning and such.
That sort of thing usually works really well for me. Right now not so much. I guess I'm back to where I was last fall -- I already know what to do, I just need to collect my scattered energy and attention and get them back on task. And breathe through the perimenopausal antsiness. I've made the decisions, now I just need to practice sitting with the discomfort of seeing them through.
