I’ve been trying to accept that I can’t work on more than one or two things at a time, and that my progress is going to be frustratingly slow. I decided that this was OK, and I would learn to temper my expectations and stop being so negative about it. My progress slowed to a crawl while I was in Taiwan for extended family visitations, but this led to a new insight that I could reframe the competition between all the different things I want to do as a single activity.

To compare, let’s look at my current goals/interests, which all compete for my time and focus:

• stationery business
• blogging
• billable software development
• community development
• software development and programming mastery
• practical knowledge management for workflow
• workflow and productivity processes
• collecting, synthesizing, and sharing new knowledge from disparate sources

I think I can reduce this to a single task:

• produce and post useful primers, toolkits, and seeds

If you’ve been following my Groundhog Day Resolutions, you might recognize this single task my third strategic initiative for 2019. I haven’t yet made any progress on this goal, and this lack of movement has really bothered me. As is common, I found my time being consumed by EXISTING commitments that helped me maintain the status quo but did not contribute to a better future.

So…I am going to try flipping the script by making my third strategic initiative into the umbrella directive. (more…)