The year began with a flurry of activity on all fronts. I wanted to make 2015 a better year than 2014 was. I planned it out before the start of the year, I got things lined up, and was all set when January 1st rolled around.
But then a couple of things hit me by surprise and I had a rough start that got me all panicky. I’ve now settled down and am trying to make the plan work.
The main issue now is trying to get everything resorted and going again. I went back and reviewed my goals for the year and came to a couple of realizations. Firstly that it’s 18 pages long. How did I get that complicated? So many goals and sub-goals and extended goals. Looking at the totality of it all it seems daunting.
Secondly that although the plan is overly detailed in some ways that in other more important ways it’s totally not detailed at all. Things aren’t organized by priority or have specific dates or have specific goals or targets. As a consequence I’ve been trying to do it all at once and I don’t think I’m utilizing my time to the best advantage.
With everything that’s happened already I feel like it should be February but I look at the calendar and it’s barely the middle of the month. At the same time I feel that I am falling behind. I am definitely having to review my goals more than last year.
But I think if I am going to make any progress at all that I have to step up and stress myself. I don’t mean failure stress, that is to stress the system till it breaks down but definitely stress the system more. Only in this way will I make any forward progress.
I have to remember that I have the whole year to get some of these things done and that things will get done. Things are getting done. I just have to be more patient.
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