Comments(0) Our rescue dog came up with an innovative new hack for my moleskine/diy hipster PDA the other day.
What you can’t see from the picture is that she took out the entire top, so now I have two ways of getting pages in and out. If it wasn’t for the tooth-marks I’d love it…
On the plus side, I’m glad she didn’t eat my zaurus!
Comments(1) There are a few blogs that I follow daily that I try and take advice from. Some I read to, well, try and make myself into a better person in general, and some to try and learn how to be a good manager. One that is particularly useful, nay inspirational at the moment is Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project.I am consistently amazed about her ability to be honest about her failures and faults, and the fact that she maintains such an optimistic and constructive outlook. Today’s post is entitled “Tips for Squelching Your Anger” and I wish I had the patience to try out her techniques when stressed or angry!
You GIS-ers out there might wonder why you have to read about such things on Planet Geospatial, but to me it’s all about getting the right attitude, and the ability to work efficiently and productively. If I manage that, I get to play with nice, shiny map-like things, but only if I’m good.
And the manifesto? Worked well today, so let’s hope I can keep it going. These techniques have worked for me in the past, I just have a tendency to drop them when it comes to moments of real stress, which is paradoxically when they should come in most handy.
Comments(1) Since they say it’s bad to apologise for not posting, I’m going to try not to do that, but instead ‘fess up to a massive gtd-reversal, wagon falling-off incident, and general deadlines-looming stress. In the next few days, a project that I have been working on for over a year finishes, and a tender has to go in for another piece of work that will start in March if we get it. In an ideal world, this wouldn’t be a problem, but I currently have three blue-screening stop-erroring windows pcs to deal with too, and the long days are starting to hurt.
What I’m trying to do though, is take a step back, and examine my reactions to all of this. Am I serenely taking time out each morning to prioritise my tasks for the day, taking my 15 minute break every hour to stave off RSI and insanity, or keeping up with my fun jobs? Am I heck. What I am doing is coming in early and going home late, and working solidly for several hours at a time without a break. I am being irritable with people who come to me with perfectly reasonable requests, and at the end of the day my back, eyes and head hurt.
So- a learning experience! Rather than complain about this- I want to set out my manifesto for dealing with similar problems in future. I figured that if I blogged about it, then it would be out there causing massive embarrassment if I fell off the wagon again. Here goes…
I pledge:
/Time Management for Sysadmins principles in prioritising any further tasks;I’ll let you know how it goes…
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