Now that Cole has a fancy hat, people stair at him more than me.
I'm going to have to blog more frequently now seeing as I've missed TWO posts since getting back to college. Sadly these have fallen to the wayside because of a fatal dose of finals mixed with a long break in which I did not have to post, which only compounded on what was an apparently irregular schedule anyway. That said, I think I've got my system up and running properly now, and I'm trying to figure on how to work this in as a regular thing.
This week I didn't get nearly as much done as I ought to have, because I wasn't really using my system. This weekend, most of the time I was working on getting everything INTO my system and making sure it was all there, rather than doing any actual work. Today, I think I got the last of it, and got all of my Calc homework done that is due this next week. I got all my Econ HW done yesterday (because it was all due yesterday), and while I am scared about whether or not I can actually maintain this system, I realize that getting more homework is going to be conducive for getting this to actually work.
Inspired by Cole's method of splitting each assignment into small, manageable parts, I'm trying to do the same. The idea behind my system is, instead of devoting copious amounts of time to managing everything manually, I think about it once when I'm putting everything in, and do what it tells me to. That said, I'm going to end up spending copious amounts of time making sure it works and checking everything before I can actually TRUST that it DOES work. I am very distrustful of myself and my system, so I really don't know if it'll ever end.
I've been thinking about the problems inherent with both of my systems, and I wonder if maybe I need to rethink how I do things entirely. Cole gets along fine with his little pen and paper planner, with just a few notes on each assignment. I point to everything ELSE that I feel needs to be managed with mine, but I wonder if I really have to use my system to keep track of all that or not. For example, clean desk, clean room, do laundry, do bed clothes are all in my list, but I do these things NATURALLY. This is mostly because they are nice, calming, stupid acts that are good excuses not do do homework. But they're still in there. However, things like check accounts still slip my mind even though they are. I think that maybe I'm over complicating my whole system, but I really don't know how I would make it simpler.
Furthermore, one of the reasons I spend so much time on my lists is because I A) don't trust them and B) spend much of the time it takes to organize them spinning my wheels. I think this is because I look at my lists and my mind goes blank. I can't process that much text. Now I've got this sort of visual thing stuck on my list to the side, but I don't really use it all THAT often, just as a quick interpretation of dates. The problem lies inherent with the list itself. I need it to simplify itself to show me JUST the things I need to deal with, but I also need a very simple method of looking at EVERYTHING ELSE to trust that those really ARE the only things I need. I really have no idea for any optimal solution that would let me do this, and I sense that this is going to be a constant uphill battle of revision and implementation, which I suppose is appropriate for an engineer. For now, however, I'm going to try this method of think and forget, and see how it works for me. Push come to it I can always go back to my simple .txt lists.
I'm going to have to blog more frequently now seeing as I've missed TWO posts since getting back to college. Sadly these have fallen to the wayside because of a fatal dose of finals mixed with a long break in which I did not have to post, which only compounded on what was an apparently irregular schedule anyway. That said, I think I've got my system up and running properly now, and I'm trying to figure on how to work this in as a regular thing.
This week I didn't get nearly as much done as I ought to have, because I wasn't really using my system. This weekend, most of the time I was working on getting everything INTO my system and making sure it was all there, rather than doing any actual work. Today, I think I got the last of it, and got all of my Calc homework done that is due this next week. I got all my Econ HW done yesterday (because it was all due yesterday), and while I am scared about whether or not I can actually maintain this system, I realize that getting more homework is going to be conducive for getting this to actually work.
Inspired by Cole's method of splitting each assignment into small, manageable parts, I'm trying to do the same. The idea behind my system is, instead of devoting copious amounts of time to managing everything manually, I think about it once when I'm putting everything in, and do what it tells me to. That said, I'm going to end up spending copious amounts of time making sure it works and checking everything before I can actually TRUST that it DOES work. I am very distrustful of myself and my system, so I really don't know if it'll ever end.
I've been thinking about the problems inherent with both of my systems, and I wonder if maybe I need to rethink how I do things entirely. Cole gets along fine with his little pen and paper planner, with just a few notes on each assignment. I point to everything ELSE that I feel needs to be managed with mine, but I wonder if I really have to use my system to keep track of all that or not. For example, clean desk, clean room, do laundry, do bed clothes are all in my list, but I do these things NATURALLY. This is mostly because they are nice, calming, stupid acts that are good excuses not do do homework. But they're still in there. However, things like check accounts still slip my mind even though they are. I think that maybe I'm over complicating my whole system, but I really don't know how I would make it simpler.
Furthermore, one of the reasons I spend so much time on my lists is because I A) don't trust them and B) spend much of the time it takes to organize them spinning my wheels. I think this is because I look at my lists and my mind goes blank. I can't process that much text. Now I've got this sort of visual thing stuck on my list to the side, but I don't really use it all THAT often, just as a quick interpretation of dates. The problem lies inherent with the list itself. I need it to simplify itself to show me JUST the things I need to deal with, but I also need a very simple method of looking at EVERYTHING ELSE to trust that those really ARE the only things I need. I really have no idea for any optimal solution that would let me do this, and I sense that this is going to be a constant uphill battle of revision and implementation, which I suppose is appropriate for an engineer. For now, however, I'm going to try this method of think and forget, and see how it works for me. Push come to it I can always go back to my simple .txt lists.
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