Get Going

Dear Conscience,

Yesterday I started making a plan for the first week of 2024, but I was very tired, so I continued adding To-Dos today. I definitely need to learn planning and prioritizing better, because my lists quickly get too long and overwhelming. I tend to add more quickly than check off, so I permanently feel behind. And this feeling then didn’t allow me to add to the list things I’d like or love to do, everything is just a grind through the “must do” and “should do” items.

But, apart from just getting better at planning, I need to get going on accomplishing the planned items. For today, I wrote down a lot of administrative accounting tasks to close off 2023, in line with the Tuesday theme of Finances. But I’ve only crossed off two minor ones. In part for good reasons (seeing friends who are in town only for today, falling off my feet from tiredness), partly for not so good ones (watching TV, reading Wikipedia cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy).

I should have expected that I would be too tired for an ambitious to do list. I could have planned to rest today, and then I wouldn’t be feeling like I’m starting the year by falling behind. But even as I accept this unplanned rest, I need to get going tomorrow. This week is too precious to waste, and I should use it to get ahead, not lose ground.

Sincerely,

B.