Saturday, February 18, 2012

Planning A New Week

A new week starts tomorrow. Time to look over your goals, and decide what to do with today, tomorrow, and the next day. If you're like me, your weekly to-do list on Sunday rarely matches your check-off list at the end of the week. It seems like no matter how logical my plan, things come up. Planning a new week can be a frustrating task since I'm never sure how it will turn out.

The techie thing I want to do with my website hits wall after wall of technical difficulties. That to-do item goes from "30 minutes to add Twitter button" to "1 hour to look up how to undo wrong HTML coding" since I am not a web designer, just a do-it-yourselfer. Welcome-but-unexpected last minute clients mean re-arranging my schedule to accomodate them, and unexpected cancellations in my acupuncture practice open up time to write more. A whole day can be re-arranged if my energy is lower than expected. And please don't ask about packing my house to move!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Quick! Pick A, B, or C!

Right now, I am at a sort of impasse in my life. I have several  important decisions to make, which will affect my home, my livelihood, my financial security, my time, my health, and several major goals. Making the right decisions will help me move forward in several areas, but making the wrong ones could make exisitng problems worse. After chewing on the decisions, I feel like I'm taking a test I forgot to study for--A, B, or C all seem valid, and so I haphazardly choose one.
Since I tend to freeze up in these situations, I decided to research decision making. Here are some points I found helpful: