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Things are improving ever-so-slightly since I realized how much of my happiness and stability are based on maintaining on-going tasks versus furthering new projects.
The trick is that in order to maintain something, I first have to catch up on it, so despite having more that's being properly maintained, I still feel overwhelmed from things I haven't managed to catch up. Today I had a "eureka!" moment and passed one task off to an employee, but many of the rest are not so easily handled. Still, laundry is slightly less piled up, call records have been downloaded on a mostly-weekly basis (instead of monthly), and commission reports have been brought back up to date on a weekly basis. By "on a weekly basis" I mean "I've managed it twice, once this week and once last week," which is really the best I can hope for on a first-week update.
I have learned that in order to make this work, I'm going to need to schedule time for one-time things, too. I've already had a couple of things that threatened to turn into a crisis if they weren't dealt with. That's pretty normal, overall, but it did throw off my "maintain, maintain, maintain" groove I had going.
Clean underwear count: 5, but only 1 is folded and put away.
The trick is that in order to maintain something, I first have to catch up on it, so despite having more that's being properly maintained, I still feel overwhelmed from things I haven't managed to catch up. Today I had a "eureka!" moment and passed one task off to an employee, but many of the rest are not so easily handled. Still, laundry is slightly less piled up, call records have been downloaded on a mostly-weekly basis (instead of monthly), and commission reports have been brought back up to date on a weekly basis. By "on a weekly basis" I mean "I've managed it twice, once this week and once last week," which is really the best I can hope for on a first-week update.
I have learned that in order to make this work, I'm going to need to schedule time for one-time things, too. I've already had a couple of things that threatened to turn into a crisis if they weren't dealt with. That's pretty normal, overall, but it did throw off my "maintain, maintain, maintain" groove I had going.
Clean underwear count: 5, but only 1 is folded and put away.
