I neither intended, nor expected that I’d go dark on here for almost a week. Not that it’s an excuse, but things kind of got away from me for a bit there. Here’s how it went down…
Two weeks of REDCAP missions really put me on my heels. I expected to be worn out, but after flying twice on Sunday and once on Monday, I was pretty much toast. I rolled into work Tuesday morning, spent a couple of hours blankly staring at my computer screen (“How do I write a ‘Hello World’ program again?”) gave it up as a bad deal and went home sick. I then proceeded to sleep most of the day.
Wednesday – Saturday then basically involved me trying to get caught up. It mostly worked. Obviously the blog got ignored on the priority chain, but all things considered, I did pretty well getting caught up.
So where does that leave me now?
Zero buffer, for starters. The daily BuJo task list is down to about 1 and 1/3 pages, so that’s progress. I had an idea a few months ago to shift the weekly vlog, which I very much enjoy doing, over to more of a just in time kind of thing, but that clearly hasn’t worked. I’ll be switching that back to something that I shoot as part of my normal content cadence.
I think the main thing that I need to do right now is to really focus on knocking out a fairly simple set of prioritized tasks every day. The way I figure it, I’ve got between five and eight tasks that need doing every day, not counting work. If I focus on getting these done for a while, I should be fine.
For the curious, in prioritized order, those tasks would be as follows:
- Daily Bible reading. Can’t read through the Bible in a year again if I don’t stay current.
- Workout (unless it’s a rest day).
- Oldest task in my BuJo. First in, First out, with exceptions for high priority or time sensitive necessary tasks.
- Grade Adventure Girl’s English homework
- Grade Adventure Girl’s math homework. (Ah, the joys of homeschooling. I really can’t complain though, I only have two subjects for one student to deal with. MLGB deals with all of the other schoolbooks most of the time.)
- Edit a video.
- Publish a video.
- Publish a blog post.
Easy, right? Just gotta be relentless and get it done.