Now: At the present time or moment
There is a lot of sense in creating plans for the future. Right down from what gets eaten on what days to planning a vacation in the future makes pragmatic sense. A plan enables us to work towards accomplishing what we set out to do. For some it might translate into saving money, to others it might mean going to school or a college or learning a new vocation. Excellent ideas all. The change in our lives, in the not-so-distant past however, forces our hand at planning too far ahead. It does bring an opportunity though to live in the present and enables us to achieve small, albeit pertinent, goals in our daily lives.
Take for example the case of our son's elaborate entertainment:
Our son loves his Jumperoo. He jumps within its safe confines and the accompanying music and his "animal buddies" give him a lot of pleasure. So does all the rest of the toys that he has accumulated in his life so far. The question really is, what happens to all these when he goes to bed (not so often yet and not for that long either...YAWN!!)? They need to be swept away to their respective places so they can be brought out and played with again the next day. Their absence from the middle of our living room also allows us to have, even for a few hours, our living room back. A part of my, what I hope to be, logical brain tries to convince me to leave the toys exactly where they are. Our son would need them again soon enough. The other part of the same logical (again, debatable at best) mind forces me to clean the chaos and create organization. Which one should I listen to?
Both thoughts are logical enough to not warrant ignorance. Both have my interest at their core. Both are achievable.
We have, in the past few months, realized that we need to accomplish tasks as soon as they are needed to be done. If we do not, we automatically assign to them a level of importance that marks them unimportant and they are delayed ad-infinitum.
I tried to take the same to work. Whether it is a case of conflict resolution or a case of well earned adulation, the best way to get it done, I think, would be do it NOW! All the articles (and there are many) and videos (they are even more) that are based on the premise of an increase in personal, and in turn, organizational efficiency point towards a daily "To-Do" list. I am personally a huge fan of that. On the other hand, I am also a follower of the dynamic nature of this list. Things, issues, circumstances, people and obligations are some examples of reasons why the to-do list keeps getting altered.
So usually I just have one item on my list:
Think of what you need to do and go do it now.
There is a lot of sense in creating plans for the future. Right down from what gets eaten on what days to planning a vacation in the future makes pragmatic sense. A plan enables us to work towards accomplishing what we set out to do. For some it might translate into saving money, to others it might mean going to school or a college or learning a new vocation. Excellent ideas all. The change in our lives, in the not-so-distant past however, forces our hand at planning too far ahead. It does bring an opportunity though to live in the present and enables us to achieve small, albeit pertinent, goals in our daily lives.
Take for example the case of our son's elaborate entertainment:
Our son loves his Jumperoo. He jumps within its safe confines and the accompanying music and his "animal buddies" give him a lot of pleasure. So does all the rest of the toys that he has accumulated in his life so far. The question really is, what happens to all these when he goes to bed (not so often yet and not for that long either...YAWN!!)? They need to be swept away to their respective places so they can be brought out and played with again the next day. Their absence from the middle of our living room also allows us to have, even for a few hours, our living room back. A part of my, what I hope to be, logical brain tries to convince me to leave the toys exactly where they are. Our son would need them again soon enough. The other part of the same logical (again, debatable at best) mind forces me to clean the chaos and create organization. Which one should I listen to?
Both thoughts are logical enough to not warrant ignorance. Both have my interest at their core. Both are achievable.
We have, in the past few months, realized that we need to accomplish tasks as soon as they are needed to be done. If we do not, we automatically assign to them a level of importance that marks them unimportant and they are delayed ad-infinitum.
I tried to take the same to work. Whether it is a case of conflict resolution or a case of well earned adulation, the best way to get it done, I think, would be do it NOW! All the articles (and there are many) and videos (they are even more) that are based on the premise of an increase in personal, and in turn, organizational efficiency point towards a daily "To-Do" list. I am personally a huge fan of that. On the other hand, I am also a follower of the dynamic nature of this list. Things, issues, circumstances, people and obligations are some examples of reasons why the to-do list keeps getting altered.
So usually I just have one item on my list:
Think of what you need to do and go do it now.
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