I am a methodical, habitual person. People tell me I am organized. I think I am inflexible and a creature of habit. Yet, in my line of work, I have to be, and am flexible all the time. But, my comfort zone is a planned and scheduled day in which I can guesstimate a time table and accomplish the tasks I had planned to do that day.
Part of my routine is to take care of personal business in the evening. This might be household chores, errands, a planned reading night or other tasks. I plan my social events so I can still keep up with other things.
The past week and this week has been filled with unplanned social events. So, I find myself trying to squeeze in moments to "keep up" with what I would have been doing. Trying to keep up with my idea of what my schedule should be can be draining. But it is something I have always done. That does not make it right.
And, for some reason, I have been inordinately tired the last few weeks, so working, reading or knitting later into the night has become more difficult.
Imagine my surprise, some 20 plus years into my working career, when I realized why weekday holidays made me so tired. Dummy! I tried to get 40 hours of work done in 32 hours. When I realized that, I adjusted and made my short weeks more manageable. But it took me years to get there. What is wrong with my thinking that I could not figure that out! I am a bright person. But my goal orientedness creates such a tunnel vision in me that that did not dawn on me for years and years! Dah!
This is always a busy time of year, with holiday activities. But I am not even dealing with those yet! It is just other life stuff that is infringing on my activity calendar.
Well, all will get done. Deadlines can be broken or changed. Life goes on.
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