The Plan For April
The biggest fear when you suddenly find yourself with all the time in the world is that you'll waste it all. More than one person has mentioned to me that they require structure in their day in order to be productive.
I'm no exception. I spent the entire of summer of 1999 ostensibly finishing my first-year film school script, but mostly behaving like a third grader on summer vacation. That's one extreme; the other is to adopt wholesale the structure imposed by your employer, which is designed to allocate all of your time in service of the company's bottom line, leaving very little time for personal fulfilment.
The answer, I think, is to create your own structure to the day and stick to it. This is easier said than done, of course. But my intention with this blog is to issue constant progress reports, which is a habit I learned while working in the video game industry. We had a practice called "Monday Updates" in which we listed everything we had done the week prior, and everything we planned to do in the coming week.
I don't know if my schedule yet necessitates the granularity of a weekly update, so let's begin with a monthly update.
April 2006
Sign up for health insurance through COBRAInput finances into fancy shmancy new budget tracking software- Clean and organize apartment into "battle-ready" condition
- Prepare for Danielle's arrival in Los Angeles
- Finish new draft of outline for Pillow Crisis*
- Watch reference movies for Waxahachie Air*
- Attend Emory beach cleanup project in Playa del Rey
- Test and assess Miracle Mile branch of gym
- Resume daily meditation and morning pages (more on this later)
2 comments:
For the next 18 months, one thing that you would find beneficial is your childhood compulsory musical instrument practice. The whole point of that exercise is to establish foundation for self-discipline. Haven't you figured out the benifit of it? Didn't that music training help you to select your title music for "Last whatever" ? It's not a "Chinese" thing !! It's an expenseive and exhausting way to bring up disciplined,talented and creative children. And, it raised their IQ's too. After 30 years, I still believe the method works, and strongly recommend to other parents to be. Apply the same discipline to your plan, but do not use tape recorder this time.
hahahaha your mom ROCKS!! and of course she's 1000% correct. look at me! i STILL play the violin, and i now love it! of course the rest of my life is total loserdom.
who's danielle? should i be jealous?
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