Something has struck me recently: this time last year I had very many weekends where my preparations prior to the week ahead were lesser than I expected. This was due to:
1) Much more fun and games - I spent family time nourishing others and myself.
2) Not have as structured plans as simply 'poetry' or 'novels'.
3) Not having so much an ideal structure for My to-do lists as I do now with Wunderlist.
I have ambitions ahead, but I also have some judicious procrastinations. Before I begin I need to decide on the following - how do I approach my to-do list when I simply do not want to? I think that I need to be able to even just look at it, and to star what I want to do.
The starring of my to-do list is an important facet of what I want to do. I want to be able to choose things to do that fit with my values; quite how this works, I am not sure. There comes a point when I simply need to 'slog' through the list. And how should I do that with family? That is a good question, too.
The truth should be told: I have not had to spend too long on my to-do list because going through it isn't so bad. The problem is, sometimes, that I begin to do tasks as I do them, and then do not even look at the entire list.
The struggle is, as always, to be able to make choices about the things in life I do in a substandard way - that I need to choose what I deprioritise rather than have that choice made for me.
Of course, the temptation to plan to the nth degree exists far too strongly. I want to have time to another life.
