I have been wasting a lot of time lately, still. I seem to wander through my day getting distracted a lot. I don’t think I’m very good at self-direction, especially when there are absolutely no outside forces directing me. I like assignments and deadlines. I like working with other people and bouncing ideas off of other people. So I need to figure out a way to get more organized.

Ideally, some sort of time-keeper software would be very useful. But I need one that is more aggressive and pokes it’s head through every now and again to ask if I’m really doing what I originally set out to do; or, have I somehow gotten so hopelessly distracted that I’m looking at lawn mowers on Amazon.com — true story and trust me, I don’t mow the lawn. I’ll start researching the options and see what’s “out there.”

Also, even though I hate them, I’m going to try and figure out some sort of “to do” list system that works for me. Over the years of looking, I’ve never found anything that I like and I’ve tried a few of them.

So this is a work in progress…but I’m going to try and come up with a way to organize myself by creating and working on a small set of goals (as opposed to 100 and getting overwhelmed). The trick will be to devise a way for me to follow through with this list on a daily basis because unfortunately in the past, I’ve either lost the list, forgotten to look at it or get tired of creating it every day.